Users Guide

Feature Description

Event Management Allows you to monitor and manage device and

group events.

Report Management Allows you to generate reports for inventory and

monitoring.

Stranded Power Information Stranded power, also known as headroom, is the

excess power available for a device group. Dell

OpenManage Power Center helps you to calculate

the stranded power for devices and device groups.

The formula for calculating stranded power is:

Stranded Power(t) = Allocated Power(t)

- Peak Power Consumption(t)

where (t) is calculated as a function of time. You

can specify a time range in the report. By default,

(t) is the time range of monitored data.

Power and Thermal Analysis Allows you to analyze power and the thermal

characteristics. You can also analyze the

underutilized servers and identify the potential

cooling issues in a data center.

Integration with the iDRAC Location Allows you to replicate the data center hierarchy

on the iDRAC location based on OMPC physical

location modelling.

Database Backup Allows you to schedule a backup of all the policies,

recovery logs, or the OMPC database. The backup

data can be used on a different OMPC server or

can be used as a restore point if there is a disk

failure.

New in this release

• Support for PowerEdge FX2/FX2s Chassis power monitoring and management. See Supported and

unsupported devices.

• Support for additional PDU models. See Supported and unsupported devices.

• View and analyze the subsystem power and Compute Usage for Second (CUPS) values.

• Analyze the server power characteristics per server model for planning and future expansion. See

Server characteristics.

• Display PDU socket connection mapping with the device.

• Assist in planning capacity expansion and provide placement suggestions. See Power analysis.

• Identify the underutilized servers in the data center based on power consumption pattern. See

Underutilized servers.

• Help to identify the potential cooling concerns in the data center. See Cooling analysis.

• OMPC database backup can be scheduled and can be used as a restore point in case of a disk failure.

See Configuring database backup.