Owner's Manual

Getting Started

This chapter introduces the OpenManage Power Center management console and presents several use cases that

describe standard usages of Power Center.

Management Console Introduction

To use Power Center, you must open a Web browser and log in. The management console opens with a list of the

available pages in the left navigation pane, and the currently-open page in the right pane.

Table 2. Main OMPC Pages

Main Page Available Actions on This Page

Getting Started This page introduces Dell OpenManage Power Center

features, and lists initial setup steps and additional tasks

you can complete after setup. You can select a video from

the video library to help you get started, or click help links

to get additional information.

Groups This page enables you to set up and organize your devices

into groups.

You can view or edit data center power information for a

group and view information for the devices in a rack or

chassis.

This page includes these tabs: Events, Dashboards, Power

Details, Temperature Details, Policies, Thresholds.

Discovery This page discovers supported devices in the data center

network. After a device is discovered, it is automatically

added to the Devices page and can be managed by Power

Center. From this page, you can:

• View the active searches

• View the recent discovery jobs

• Rerun a search using the discovery search

criteria

Devices This page lists network-discovered devices and devices

added manually. From this page, you can:

• Add supported or unsupported devices to the

Devices page

• Remove devices from the Devices page

• Edit device information for a single device or

multiple devices

• Edit protocol information for a single device

• Filter and sort devices to meet current needs

Policies This page enables you to manage the power policies.