Owner's Manual

124 Power Monitoring
Threshold Values for Power Monitoring
Power consumption is very specific to the hardware being used. A critical
consumption on one system may be well within the bounds on another
system. For convenience, rules have been defined to trigger alerting on the
power metrics, but due to this tight coupling to the hardware, you must
define proper thresholds specific to the hardware being monitored in order to
see any of these rules trigger as the default settings are set well above any real
hardware values.
Managing Power Monitoring
To work with power consumption monitoring, enable the power monitoring
policy, see “Enabling Monitor Policies.”
After you have confirmed that the power monitoring is activated, you can
monitor power consumption for a device using the available power
consumption metrics. You can do any of the following:
• View real time data, see “Managing Power Monitoring Metrics.”
• View historical data, click
Actions  Monitor  Historical and select the
device.
Dell Power - Instantaneous
Headroom (BTU/hr)
Select to monitor the available
instantaneous headroom in
British Thermal Unit Per Hour.
Dell Power - Instantaneous
Headroom (Watts)
Select to monitor the available
instantaneous headroom in Watts.
Dell Power - Power Consumption
(BTU/hr)
Select to monitor power
consumption in British Thermal
Unit Per Hour.
Dell Power - Power Consumption
(Watts)
Select to monitor power
consumption in Watts.
Agentless Text Metrics
Dell Power - Energy Consumption
Start Time
Select to view text data for energy
consumption start time.
Table 10-2. Metrics for Power Monitoring
Metric Description
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