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– The Community Name that describes the community; for example, Public . The maximum length is 255
characters.
5. Click Save to apply your changes, or click Cancel to discard them.
Sending SNMP Traps To A Third-Party Application
1. Locate the Power Center MIB file at <InstallationDirectory>\Conf\DellOpenManagePowerCenter-MIB.mib
2. Import the MIB file into the third-party application.
3. Make sure SNMP trap settings are configured as required in Dell OpenManage Power Center.
Database Policy Settings
Database policy settings are used to configure the database maintenance policy.
Power Center stores monitoring data for your data center in a database file, using compressed power/temperature data
to optimize for higher query performance and smallest database size. It stores both power/temperature compressed
data and non-compressed data in the database. Data compression helps improve data query efficiency by aggregating
and saving monitoring data using a bigger granularity (hourly or daily), but not the original granularity decided by the
Sampling Interval.
By default, Power Center keeps compressed power/temperature data and event data up to 365 days and non-
compressed power/temperature data up to 14 days. You can configure the length of time that Power Center will keep
compressed and non-compressed data using the Purge Data Older Than and Data Compression fields. Data that
exceeds its length of time or is older than the purge date is deleted. This improves the efficiency of the data query. You
can automatically purge data by using the Schedule Database Purging Daily at field, or you can trigger it manually to
start purging data immediately (see “Purge Database Now,” below).
You can set the following for database maintenance:
• Data Compression — Set the number of the days (1-14) to keep the non-compressed data. The default is 7 days.
• Purge Data Older Than — Set the number of the days (1-365) to keep the compressed data and the event logs.
The default is 365 days.
• Schedule Database Purging Daily at — Set the time of day to start database purging (00:00:00 - 23:00:00). The
default is 23:00:00.
• Export Database — Export the data in a selected date range to a .csv file. Click Export Database, and define a
start and end date to export all the data between 00:00:00 of the start date to 00:00:00 of the next day after the
end date to a .csv file. By default, the .csv file is saved in the Downloads folder of your Web browser. The
following data is exported:
– Measurement data of supported devices (excludes groups) — There is no measurement data for
unsupported devices.
– Hourly data — Hourly data is the data collected during the hour before (timestamp - 1). For example, if
the timestamp of the data is 14:00:00, the PowerAvg field displays the average power from 13:00:00 to
14:00:00.
NOTE: If there is no data available at the defined timestamp, this field displays -1.
The .csv file includes the following fields:
– DeviceId — Power Center internal device unique ID
– DeviceType — Device type; for example, Server, PDU, UPS or CMC
– DeviceName — Device name
– DeviceIP — Device IP address
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