Owner's Manual

Dell OpenManage Power Center Release Notes
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Description: When viewing the power history (or temperature) of a selected group in 15 minute
windows the graph is blank. The possible cause: the power and temperature sampling period in
general setting is set at 10-minute interval.
Resolution or workaround: View the trending graph of the larger windows (1H, 1 Day, 1 Week, etc.)
or reset the power sampling interval. In general Dell recommends setting the power and
temperature sampling interval at 3 minutes.
Issue 4: Getting”Average inlet temperature” events on an empty group
Description: There is no device in the group, why is the event generated? The event is generated
because you set the “Min Warning threshold” or “Min critical Threshold” values, but there are no
devices present in the group. The temperature is reported as 0 in an empty group, and hence the
event is generated.
Resolution or workaround: This is not recommended practice. You should only set the temperature
or power threshold on groups that contains devices.
Issue 5: Getting event “Power returns to normal”, but the server is in the lost connection state
Description: I got an alert that the average power usage exceeds the set threshold, and then I got an
alert that “Power returns to normal”, but when checking the server, I find that the server is in the
“lost connection” state. What is going on?
The reason you had a “Power returns to normal” message is because OMPC cannot communicate
with the server to collect power data on the power usage threshold due to the “lost connection”
issue.
Resolution or workaround: The message is misleading; however, when getting the “lost connection”
alert, Dell recommends that you analyze and re-establish the connection with OMPC first. Once the
server is connected, OMPC will be able to collect needed power data and will then be able to report
the status or, alternatively, to send the appropriate event alert.
Issue 6: Although I have edited and saved the IPMI key, the next time I open the saved IMPI profile,
the key is once again displayed as “0000…”.
Description: The key has actually been changed and saved as the value that you entered. However,
while the display should read the value as “xxxx…” as the key is encrypted, the encrypted key is
instead displayed as “0000….”. There is no difference between the display “0000….” and “xxxx…”.
Resolution or workaround: N/A.
Issue 7: OMPC does not provide a warning when I delete my own LDAP account
Description: I logged into OMPC with my LDAP account, and then deleted the LDAP account in the
user management settings screen, but OMPC did not provide a warning that was deleting the
account I was using to log in.
We will implement a fix for this in next release a warning to make sure you aware that you are
deleting the current-user account.