Users Guide

● PostgreSQL Data Directory—The location of PostgreSQL data.

Press <Enter> to continue.

NOTE: You must create a super user account to log into OpenManage Power Center following installation.

9. Create a super user account.

a. Type 1, then enter a super user account name. The account name must be:

● Unique for each Power Center user

● Up to 20 uppercase or lowercase printable characters, except “/\[]:;|=,+'*?<>.@

● Not case sensitive

b. Type 2, then enter a password for the super user account.

NOTE: The password must be a minimum of 8 characters in length, with characters from at least three of the

following categories: uppercase, lowercase, numeric, and non-alphanumeric. The password can include spaces

10. Press <Enter> to initiate the installation.

11. Once the installation has completed, type q to quit the installation wizard.

NOTE: You must install Linux Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line (WMIC), if you want to manage Hyper-

V when OMPC is installed on Linux operating system. It is a Linux wmi tool and can be downloaded from http://

www.openvas.org/download/wmi/ link.

Installed directories in Linux

By default, the OpenManage Power Center package is installed in /opt/dell/ompc.

The OpenManage Power Center package includes the following folders:

● bin — OpenManage Power Center binaries

● conf — OpenManage Power Center configuration files

● external — Other applications installed by OpenManage Power Center

● logs — OpenManage Power Center event logs

● pgdata (default) — Database files

Power Center services in Linux

OpenManage Power Center includes the following services on Linux platform installations:

● Dell EMC OpenManage Power Center Database Services — The PostgreSQL internal database for OpenManage Power

Center.

● Dell EMC OpenManage Power Center DataCenter Manager Service — The OpenManage Power Center server core service.

It carries out all actions including communication with devices.

● Dell EMC OpenManage Power Center Authentication Service — Authenticates the local Linux user and group through a

standard PAM interface.

● Dell EMC OpenManage Power Center WebServer Service — The Apache Tomcat server that hosts the OpenManage Power

Center web application which passes action requests to the OpenManage Power Center server.

Use the following command at the command line interface to check OpenManage Power Center service status:

#opt/dell/ompc/ompcdaemons status

To start, stop, or restart OpenManage Power Center service, use the following command:

#/opt/dell/ompc/ompcdaemons start|stop|restart

Using OpenManage Power Center