Owner's Manual

Configuring Power Center Settings

You configure all the Power Center settings in the Settings > General screen.

1. In the left pane, click Settings → General.

2. Click Edit under the selected settings section.

3. Enter or select a new value.

4. Click Save.

Some settings will take effect immediately; some will not. See the following sections for more specific information.

General Settings

On the General Settings screen, you can view and configure Dell OpenManage Power Center settings including:

• Power Center Monitoring—Enable/disable monitoring, and set power and temperature sampling intervals.

• Default Units—Convert power/temperature values into selected units of measurement, and display energy

consumption cost in the selected currency.

• Protocol Type Device Timeout—Configure the timeout between devices and the Power Center server.

• Energy Consumption—Calculate energy consumption cost.

• SNMP Traps—Enable or disable SNMP traps.

• Database Policy—Edit the current policy, export the database, or purge the database instantly.

Monitoring Settings

These settings are used to enable/disable monitoring and set the sampling interval:

• Monitor all devices and groups – Enables or disables monitoring of all devices and groups. The default is Yes. If

you select No, you cannot view the device/group power and temperature details.

• Power sampling interval – Power Center gets power data according to the sampling interval you set (1, 3, or 6

minutes). You can view power data on the Power Details page. The default is 1 minute.

• Temperature sampling interval – Power Center gets temperature data according to the sampling interval you set

(1, 3, or 6 minutes). You can view temperature data on the Temperature Details page. The default is 1 minute.

Recommended Sampling Intervals for Performance Tuning and Scaling

It is important to configure appropriate Power and Temperature Sampling Intervals in Power Center, because sampling

intervals impact the system performance and footprint significantly, including network bandwidth consumption,

database size, and trend graph display latency.

The default power and temperature intervals in Power Center are 1 minute. This value is appropriate for small- or

medium-sized environments where the device number is less than 1000; however, when the environment has more

managed devices, it is recommended to adjust the values to 3 or 6 minutes.

NOTE: The device number includes only supported devices. Unsupported devices are not counted.