Users Guide
Top 10 (Most Recent) Critical and Warning Events
This option enables you to view the recent top ten critical and warning events.
Common use cases
This section provides a standard scenario to help Administrators to 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 Dell OpenManage Power
Center and set up the group structure for monitoring your data center. Then, see steps 6, 7, and/or 8 to
use OpenManage Power Center for monitoring, comparing power and temperature data between
devices and/or time slots, and creating policies:
1. Install OpenManage Power Center in a Windows or Linux environment
2. Launch OpenManage Power Center.
3. Discover devices and add one or more devices from the network.
4. Manage your devices. You can delete, edit, and filter devices.
5. Create one or more data center group structures.
6. Create one or more power policies, and apply to devices.
7. Create power control tasks.
8. Monitor Power and Temperature events on devices.
9. Generate reports and compare power or temperature status and the energy cost for two or three
devices or groups.
Supported and unsupported devices
You can discover supported devices, and create a group structure to build out the data center. Power
Center cannot discover or manage all device types, and unsupported devices must be manually added to
make the data center group structure complete.
For supported devices:
• Device types include chassis, server, UPS, and PDU.
• Set the connection protocol and credential information so that the device can communicate with
Power Center.
• Perform management functions including discovery, adding to the group structure, monitoring power
and temperature, applying power management policies, and sending events.
Power Center supports up to 4000 managed devices in one data center.
Table 3. Supported devices
Category Supported Platform Validated Model
Server Dell
• Dell PowerEdge R310 Server
• Dell PowerEdge R410 Server
• Dell PowerEdge R515 Serve
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