Users Guide

Enabling Emergency Power Reduction
1. In the left pane, click Devices → All Devices or Devices → Managed Groups.
2. From the list of devices, select the device (data center, room, aisle, rack, or chassis) to which you
need to apply the Emergency Power Reduction.
3. In the task menu, click Enable EPR.
The following message is displayed.
Applying Emergency Power Reduction will throttle power down to an extremely
low level, and impact performance. Do you want to continue?
4. Click Yes to proceed.
Disabling Emergency Power Reduction
Disabling Emergency Power Reduction (EPR) restores device power to its full state.
NOTE: For instructions on applying EPR to an entity, see Enabling emergency power reduction.
NOTE: It may take a few moments for the Power Center console to reflect the disabling of EPR. You
can manually refresh your screen to see the updated EPR status notification in the upper right
corner of the screen.
NOTE: The red EPR status notification icon only appears in the upper right corner of the screen
when EPR has been applied to a device.
1. From any screen within Power Center, click the red EPR status notification in the upper right corner
of the screen or in the left pane, click Devices → All Devices, or Devices → Managed Groups.
NOTE: If the devices on which you enabled EPR do not appear on the list, click Refresh.
A pop-up window opens listing the Name of the entity under EPR and a Timestamp reflecting the
time EPR went into effect.
2. Click the View EPR button.
The Emergency Power Reduction window is displayed.
3. Select the entity (data center, room, aisle, rack, or chassis) for which you want to disable EPR.
4. In the task menu, click Disable EPR.
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