Users Guide

Feature Description
Event Management Allows you to monitor and manage device and
group events.
Report Management Allows you to generate reports for inventory and
monitoring.
Stranded Power Information Stranded power, also known as headroom, is the
excess power available for a device group. Dell
OpenManage Power Center helps you to calculate
the stranded power for devices and device groups.
The formula for calculating stranded power is:
Stranded Power(t) = Allocated Power(t)
- Peak Power Consumption(t)
where (t) is calculated as a function of time. You
can specify a time range in the report. By default,
(t) is the time range of monitored data.
Power and Thermal Analysis Allows you to analyze power and the thermal
characteristics. You can also analyze the
underutilized servers and identify the potential
cooling issues in a data center.
Integration with the iDRAC Location Allows you to replicate the data center hierarchy
on the iDRAC location based on OMPC physical
location modelling.
Database Backup Allows you to schedule a backup of all the policies,
recovery logs, or the OMPC database. The backup
data can be used on a different OMPC server or
can be used as a restore point if there is a disk
failure.
New in this release
• Support for new platforms. See Supported and unsupported devices.
• Support for additional PDU models. See Supported and unsupported devices.
• Provision to exclude IP range during device discovery.
• Customize the home page of the application.
• Chained PDU support.
• Power Center supports up to 6000 managed devices in a data center.
• Simplified group creation
• 3 additional pre-defined templates to create, customize, run and export reports. See Managing reports
• Modified filters to customize the results based on distinctive needs and environment.
• Thermal event based policy.
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