Users Guide

Overview
OpenManage Power Center is a power management solution for the data center. It enables you to monitor and manage power
consumption and temperature in your data center through the management console.
Topics:
• Key features
• New in this release
• Topology
• System requirements
Key features
Table 1. OpenManage Power Center features
Feature Description
Easy Installation
The OpenManage Power Center installation wizard has easy-
to-use steps that allow you to install the application easily and
in a few minutes.
Power Monitoring Monitors power-related metrics on the following levels:
● Individual device
● Data center/Room/Aisle/Rack/Chassis
● User-defined group
Temperature Monitoring Monitors temperature data of devices or device groups.
Power Control Creates policies that control power consumption at the device
and group levels.
Tasks You can create power control and discovery tasks. Power
control tasks help you avoid power cuts and power spikes.
Discovery tasks help you to add devices to the Power Center
management console. This in turn helps you to manage them.
Device Discovery Supports enterprise systems including PowerEdge blade and
tower/rack servers, chassis, and Power Distribution Units
(PDUs) and Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) devices.
Role-based Access Control Supports user authentication and multiple role-based rights.
Event Management Enables you to monitor and manage device and group events.
Report Management Enables you to generate reports for inventory and monitoring.
Stranded Power Information Stranded power, also known as headroom, is the excess
power available for a device group. OpenManage Power
Center helps you to calculate the stranded power for devices
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