Owner's Manual
Main Screen Available Actions on This Screen
Jobs Manage and display the status (ongoing, scheduled, cancelled, or completed) of your
discovery jobs. From this screen, you can:
• View active and scheduled searches
• View completed discovery jobs
• Rerun a search using discovery search criteria
• Delete or Cancel jobs you no longer need
Events This screen lists all events at all severity levels. From this screen, you can:
• View all events
• Add comments to events
• Delete events
• Filter and sort events
• Export the event log to a *.csv file
Settings From the Settings submenus you can configure all Power Center settings, including:
• General—Basic settings such as default units used, monitoring intervals, and
database policy settings
• Alerts—Enable or disable alert severity levels, and configure SMTP settings
• Directory—Configure LDAP settings if running your Power Center installation on
a Linux platform
• User and Group Accounts—Add, edit, delete, enable, or disable user and group
accounts
• Roles—Add, edit, or delete roles
• Licensing—Manage your Power Center license
Common Use Cases
This section provides a standard scenario to help users in an Administrator role get started with Dell OpenManage
Power Center.
If you are a first-time user, you can follow the sequence of steps 1-5 to install Power Center and set up the group
structure for monitoring your data center. Then, see steps 6, 7, and/or 8 to use Power Center for monitoring, comparing
power and temperature data between devices and/or time slots, and creating policies:
1. Install Power Center in a Windows or Linuxenvironment
2. Launch Power Center.
3. Discover devices and add one or more devices manually or from the network.
4. Manage your devices. You can delete, edit, and filter devices. You can also click Add in the Devices page to add a
device manually, then manage it.
5. Create one or more data center group structures.
6. Create one or more power policies, and apply to devices.
7. Monitor Power and Temperature events on devices.
8. Compare
power/temperature status and the energy cost for two or three devices/groups.
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