Users Guide

Underutilized Racks
This option enables you to view the names of the racks in which the power capacity and rack space
remain unused. Click Actual or Percentage to arrange the racks by the actual or utilization percentage of
power and rack space.
Top 10 (Most Recent) Critical and Warning Events
This option enables you to view the recent top 10 critical and warning events.
Customizable Dashboard Settings
This option enables you to customize the dashboard available on the home page. You can select
individual information referred as dashlets, from a list of predefined set of dashlets. Click to select
the required dashlets.
Power History
A visual representation of the power history of the system groups.
Temperature History
A visual representation of the temperature history of the system groups.
Common use cases
This section provides a standard scenario to help Administrators to get started with Dell OpenManage
Power Center.
If you are a first-time user, you can follow the sequence of steps 1-5 to install Dell OpenManage Power
Center and set up the group structure for monitoring your data center. Then, see steps 6, 7, and/or 8 to
use OpenManage Power Center for monitoring, comparing power and temperature data between
devices and/or time slots, and creating policies:
1. Install OpenManage Power Center in a Windows or Linux environment
2. Launch OpenManage Power Center.
3. Discover devices and add one or more devices from the network.
4. Manage your devices. You can delete, edit, and filter devices.
5. Create one or more data center group structures.
6. Create one or more power policies, and apply to devices.
7. Create power control tasks.
8. Monitor Power and Temperature events on devices.
9. Generate reports and compare power or temperature status and the energy cost for two or three
devices or groups.
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