Owner's Manual

Getting Started

This chapter introduces the Dell 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 screens in the left navigation pane, and the currently-open screen in the right pane.

Table 2. Main OMPC Pages

Main Screen Available Actions on This Screen

Home This screen introduces Dell OpenManage Power Center features, and lists initial setup

steps and quick tasks you can complete after setup. You can click help links to get

additional information. From this screen you can see events generated by your managed

devices, as well as a list of the top power cap offenders and most underutilized racks.

Devices From this screen you can 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.

Once assigned to a group, devices are added to the Grouped Devices tab. Prior to

discovery, devices are listed on the Unassigned Devices tab. Whether grouped or

unassigned, devices discovered by Power Center will always be listed on the All Devices

tab.

Tasks available on this screen include:

• Run a discovery job to automatically add devices connected to the network to the

list of managed devices

• Add supported or unsupported devices to Power Center

• Remove devices from Power Center

• Edit device information for a single device or for multiple devices

• Edit protocol information for a single device

• Filter and sort devices to meet current needs

• Compare power and temperature status and energy consumption between

selected devices and device groups

Policies Manage the power policies applied to your devices from this screen. From here you can:

• Create a new power policy and apply it to devices or groups

• Edit an existing policy

• Enable or disable existing policies

• Delete policies

• Filter your view of policies