Users Guide

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Getting started
This chapter introduces the Dell OpenManage Power Center management console, and presents several
use cases that describe standard uses of Dell OpenManage Power Center.
Management console introduction
To use Open Manage Power Center, you must open a Web browser and log in. The management
console opens with a list of the available screens in the left navigation pane, and the currently-open
screen in the right pane.
Table 2. Main OMPC Pages
Main Screen Available actions on the screen
Home The Home screen introduces Dell OpenManage Power Center features, and
lists initial setup steps that you can complete after setup. You can click the
Help to get additional information. On this screen you can view:
• Overall events generated by the managed devices
• Events from the top five groups generated by the managed devices
• The total number and type of discovered devices
• The top five energy consuming device groups at the root level
• Information about power and space headroom
• Analyze top power cap and temperature threshold offenders
• Most underutilized racks
• Top 10 most recent critical and warning events
• Information about power and temperature history
Tasks The Tasks feature enables you to perform device discovery and power control
tasks such as power-on and power-off, on a specific device or group of
devices. On the Tasks screen you can:
• Create new discovery and power control tasks
• Edit or delete discovery and power control tasks
• Start or re-run discovery and power control tasks
• Refresh the list of discovery or power control tasks
• View the summary of the discovery or power control tasks
Devices On the Devices screen, you can view both network-discovered and manually
added devices. On this screen you can
• Add groups
• Add unsupported devices
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