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Power Monitoring
Power monitoring enables you to monitor a standard set of power
consumption counters for Dell servers; however, these servers must support
power monitoring.
Power monitoring offers the following features:
• Receive data from metrics gathered by Dell OpenManage.
• View power consumption trends and data for devices in a graphical format.
• Access data over the SNMP and WMI protocols.
• Power Monitoring is supported in the yx0x and yx1x servers, and only the
following x9xx servers with OpenManage Server Administrator version 5.3
or later:
• 1950 MLK111
• 2950 MLK111
For more information on the supported servers see the
Support
Information Matrix for Dell Management Console Version 1.1
.
In the server name format yxxx; y denotes alphabets, for example R or T;
and x denotes numbers.
• Record single probe readings like amperage per power supply (in A), energy
consumption (in KWh), and so on.
• Record aggregate readings like aggregate power.
• View graphs for real-time power consumption data, historical power
consumption data, and so on.
• Generate Reports for various power consumption metrics.
Dell™ OpenManage™ Server Administrator Related Notes
• For some rollup status, the OpenManage Server Administrator status may
differ from the status displayed in Dell Management Console.
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