Owner's Manual

Field Description

• PDU

• UPS

• Chassis

• Unsupported

Group Device’s physical group.

Size of Device Physical size of device in rack units (U)

Faceplate Power Device faceplate power

De-rated Power Device de-rated power

IP Address Device IP address

Serial Number or Service Tag Device serial number or service tag

• Service Tag: The service tags for Dell chassis and

servers

• Serial Number: The serial numbers for Dell PDU

and UPS devices

• NA: For all other devices, NA is displayed

Asset Tag Device asset tag

Device Model Device model—for example, PowerEdge M610

Protocol Protocol used for communication, including:

• IPMI

• SNMPv1v2c or SNMPv3

• WS-MAN

Power Capability Power monitoring and capping capability, or whether the

device can be upgraded, including:

• Unknown

• None

• Monitor

• Monitor & Capping

• Monitor and Upgradable

Time of Discovery Time the device was discovered

Description Device description

NOTE: If a device is already discovered and listed in the Devices page, when Power Center runs a discovery task

and this device is discovered again, all the device information for this device is updated in the Devices page. For

more information on device discovery, see Adding a Device from the Network.

Adding A Device From The Network

You can use the Power Center management console to discover a device from the network.

NOTE: Power Center server tries to get device names from the DNS server specified in the network configuration

of the operating system. This may cause the device name to be different from the actual one if the DNS server

resolves the device IP address to a different device name.