Users Guide

Event Management
This chapter provides information on event types, severity levels, supported UPS/PDU events, and how to manage Power
Center events.
You can receive events indicating an abnormal power/temperature situation in the data center. Power Center detects:
● Pre-defined events
● Custom events
Power Center uses port 6553 to listen for internal events. If another application is configured to use port 6553, you must
change it to reserve port 6533 for Power Center.
Power Center uses port 162 to listen for events from external devices. If the SNMP Trap service exists and uses port 162,
Power Center automatically uses port 1162 to receive external events forwarded by the SNMP trap service.
In the left pane, click Events. The Events screen is displayed. On this screen, you can:
● Acknowledge Events
● Add a note to an event
● Delete events
● Sort events
● Filter events
● Export events
Topics:
• Pre-defined events
• Custom events
• Application log events
• Supported PDU and UPS events
• Event severity levels
• Viewing events
• Sorting events
• Adding comments to events
• Deleting events
• Filtering events
• Sending test events from an IPMI device
Pre-defined events
A predefined event is an event that Power Center defines based on system conditions. Device support for events includes:
● UPS/PDU devices – To receive events, you must subscribe to the event from the console of that PDU or UPS.
● PowerEdge tower and rack servers – Support all IPMI events (IPMI Power Unit, IPMI Power Supply, IPMI Processor
Temperature Trip, IPMI Fan).
● PowerEdge blade servers – Only support IPMI Processor Temperature Trip events.
● Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) – Only supports the IPMI trap format. To receive events from an iDRAC
device, make sure the alert function is enabled and the IPMI trap format is selected for all Power Center-supported events in
the iDRAC management console (IPMI Power Unit, IPMI Power Supply, IPMI Processor Temperature Trip, IPMI Fan). For
example, in the iDRAC7 management console, you must select IPMI trap for all PWR/PSU/CPU/Fan-related alerts.
NOTE: For more information on using the iDRAC management console, see iDRAC documentation.
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