Owner's Manual

– Current temperature. You can set the unit (Celsius or Fahrenheit) in Settings.
– PDU Dashboard that displays the name, time, power, current, and voltage associated with all PDUs in
the selected group
– Top 10 critical events including severity, entity, event type, description, time stamp, and comments
• Events—Critical and warning events currently associated with the group or device
• Power
– Graph of temperature for the past 15 minutes (15 Mn), hour (1 H), day (1 D), week (1 W), month (1 M), 3
months (3 M), or one year (1 Y)
– Energy consumption for the selected time period for IT equipment and cooling
• Temperature
– Graph of power usage in BTU/hr for the past 15 minutes (15 Mn), hour (1 H), day (1 D), week (1 W), month
(1 M), 3 months (3 M), or one year (1 Y)
• Thresholds
– Click Edit to enter Power Thresholds or Temperature Thresholds
• Policies
– Create a new power policy
– Enable or disable a power policy
– Delete a power policy
– Apply an emergency power reduction
Creating a New Power Policy
You can create static power policies for a rack, chassis or device, and create dynamic power policies for any group/
device. Power policies only apply to the groups/devices that have Monitor & Capping power capability.
1. Click Groups in the left pane.
2. Click the entity (data center, room, aisle, rack, or chassis) to which the policy will apply.
3. Click the POLICIES tab near the bottom of the screen.
4. Click Create New Policy.
5. In the Create New Policy window:
a) Enter a policy name that is less than 25 characters.
b) For racks and chassis only, select a Policy Type of Static or Dynamic .
c) Select a fixed time period to display Average Power and Maximum Power values that can be used to estimate a
Power Cap Value. The Average Power, Maximum Power, Lower Bound and Upper Bound values only refer to
the devices that have monitoring and capping power capability.
d) Enter either a Power Cap Value or Percentage of Capability to set the total power consumption budget for
devices with monitoring and capping power capabilities:
* Power Cap Value—Enter a value between the Lower Bound and Upper Bound. The Lower Bound is the
lowest minimum power consumption since the device/group was discovered or added to Power Center.
The Upper Bound is the maximum power consumption when the device/group is in a maximum
workload state.
* Percentage of Capability— Enter a percentage between 1-100%. The following formula will calculate
the total power consumption budget: Upper Bound * Percentage of Capability = Power Cap Value
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