Users Guide

Power Monitoring and Power Management 155
Power Monitoring and Power
Management
Dell™ PowerEdge™ systems incorporate many new and enhanced power
management features. The entire platform, from hardware to firmware to
systems management software, has been designed with a focus on power
efficiency, power monitoring, and power management.
PowerEdge systems provide many features for monitoring and managing power:
• Power Monitoring: iDRAC6 collects a history of power measurements
and calculates running averages, peaks, and so on. Using the iDRAC6
Web-based interface, you can view the information on the
Power
Monitoring
screen. You can also view the information in graph form by
clicking
Show Graph at the bottom of the Power Monitoring screen.
See "Power Control" for more information.
•
Power Budgeting: At boot, a system inventory enables a system power
budget of the current configuration to be calculated. See "Power
Monitoring" for more information.
•
Power Control: iDRAC6 enables you to remotely perform several
power management actions on the managed system
. See "Power Control"
for more information.
Configuring and Managing Power
You can use the iDRAC6 Web-based interface and RACADM command line
interface (CLI) to manage and configure power controls on the PowerEdge
system. Specifically, you can:
• View the power status of the server. See "Viewing Power Monitoring."
• View power budget information for the server, including the minimum and
maximum potential power consumption. See "Viewing Power Budget."