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• Previous hour
• Previous day
• Previous week
• Previous month
• Previous quarter
8. Enter a value in the Power Cap Value text box.
9. Click Next to continue, click Back to return to the previous screen, or click Cancel to discontinue the
task.
10. In the Power Cap Priorities window, select an option from the Priority drop-down list to set the
capping priority for each device in the group.
The available options are:
• Low
• Medium
• High
NOTE: The Power Cap Priorities window is accessible only when you select a device group.
11. Click Next to continue, click Back to return to the previous screen, or click Cancel to discontinue the
task.
12. In the Power Policy Schedule window, set the monitoring schedule for the policy.
• Time Span — Always or a range (enter start and end time in the format hh:mm using 24–hour
time)
• Recurrence Pattern — Always or specific days of the week
• Recurrence Range — Always or a range (enter start and end dates)
13. Click Next to view the summary of the policy you created.
14. In the Summary window, click Finish to save the policy, click Back to review the policy information,
or click Cancel to discard the changes.
The new policy is effective immediately.
Policy Priority Levels
When you create or update a policy, you can select different priority levels for each device/group. For
example, you can set priority levels based on the service level agreements associated with workloads
running on a device/group.
Power Center tends to reserve more power to the devices/groups with higher priority when the power
cap for devices/groups is not fully utilized.
For each device/group, you can set one of the three priority levels:
• Low
• Medium (Default)
• High
Priority lists are policy-specific; however, a device/group may have different priority levels in different
policies. A higher-priority value of a device/group in a policy overrides the lower-priority value of the
same node in another policy.
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