Users Guide

• Top 10 Underutilized Racks (Space)
• Top 10 Events (Critical and Warning)
• Power History
• Temperature History
Events
On the Home page, you can view a pie graph representation of events occurring in Dell OpenManage
Power Center. Move the pointer over the graph to view the number of each event type.
Events (Top 5 Groups)
On the Home page, you can view a bar graph representation of the top five device groups, that have the
highest number of events with severity as Critical, followed by the events that has the events with severity
as Warning and Information. Move the pointer over the graph to view the number of each event type for
the top-five device groups.
Devices Discovered [Total: <number>]
On the Home page, you can view a pie graph representation of the total number and type of discovered
devices.
Energy Consumers (Top 5 Groups) [kwh]
On the Home page, you can view a bar graph representation of the top five energy consuming device
groups at the root level. Click to specify the number of months for calculating the peak power
consumption. By default, the number of months is 6.
Power Headroom
OMPC allows you to monitor and manage the available excess power in a top-level group. The observed
monitoring data is helpful in planning capacity expansion.
Space Headroom
OMPC allows you to monitor and manage the available excess space in a data center. The observed
monitoring data is helpful in providing placement suggestion.
Top Offenders (Power)
This option enables you to view the names of the racks that exceeded the power threshold.
Top Offenders (Temperature)
This option enables you to view the names of the racks that exceeded the Temperature threshold. Click
Actual or Percentage to arrange the devices or groups by the actual amount or percentage by which the
racks have exceeded the temperature thresholds or caps.
18