Owner's Manual
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• View reports for various power consumption metrics, see the
“Reporting“chapter.
You can modify rules and actions for the power consumption monitoring
metrics, see “Modifying Metrics.”
Managing Power Monitoring Metrics
You can monitor power consumption of devices by selecting the required
metrics from a list of agentless numeric and text metrics. You can modify the
rules and actions defined for the various metrics.
To view power consumption for devices:
1
Do any of the following:
• From Dell Management Console, select
Actions
Monitor
Real-
time
.
• From the
Monitoring and Alerting
portal page, in
Launch
Performance Viewer
, click on the device icon to select the device, and
then click
Launch
.
• From the
Monitoring and Alerting
portal page, in
Monitored
Resources by Status
, select the device and then click
Performance
Viewer
.
The Real-time Performance Viewer page along with the
Registered
Metrics
page is displayed.
2
In the
Registered Metrics
page, select the required metrics and then click
OK
. For more information see, “Metrics for Power Monitoring.”
Group Metrics
This feature will be available in later versions of Dell Management Console.
The group metric provides an interface that allows efficient data collection,
collecting data efficiently enables faster calculation for the report when
compared with the same group viewed in the Smart metric report. This
interface also allows for creating thresholds at the group level. All group
metrics will calculate sum of the specified group's values. The group metric
can only have one target at any time and this target must be the same or
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