Owner's Manual

Event Management

This chapter provides information on event types, severity levels, supported PDU/UPS events, and how to manage

Power Center events.

You can receive events indicating an abnormal power/temperature situation in the data center. Power Center detects:

• Pre-defined events

• Custom events

Power Center uses port 6553 to listen for internal events. If another application is configured to use port 6553, you must

change it to reserve port 6533 for Power Center.

Power Center uses port 162 to listen for events from external devices. If the SNMP Trap service exists and uses port 162,

Power Center automatically uses port 1162 to receive external events forwarded by the SNMP trap service.

Predefined Events

A predefined event is an event that Power Center defines based on system conditions. Device support for events

includes:

• PDU/UPS devices – To receive events, you must subscribe to the event from the console of that PDU or UPS.

• Dell PowerEdge tower and rack servers – Support all IPMI events (IPMI Power Unit, IPMI Power Supply, IPMI

Processor Temperature Trip, IPMI Fan).

• Dell PowerEdge blade servers – Only support IPMI Processor Temperature Trip events.

• Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) – Only supports the IPMI trap format. To receive events from

an iDRAC device, make sure the alert function is enabled and the IPMI trap format is selected for all Power

Center-supported events in the iDRAC management console (IPMI Power Unit, IPMI Power Supply, IPMI

Processor Temperature Trip, IPMI Fan). For example, in the iDRAC7 management console, you must select IPMI

trap for all PWR/PSU/CPU/Fan-related alerts.

NOTE: For more information on using the iDRAC management console, see iDRAC documentation.

Table 8. Power Center Events and Severity Levels

Type Description Severity Level

Blades Change In Chassis Some blades in a chassis have

changed; you must manually

rediscover the chassis. Power Center

detects chassis changes once every

15 minutes

Informative

Cannot Register Event on Device The device cannot register device

events to the Power Center server

automatically.

Warning

Communication with Chassis Failed Power Center lost communication

with the chassis.

Warning