Users Guide

Event Management

This chapter provides information on event types, severity levels, supported PDU/UPS events, and how to

manage Power Center events.

You can receive events indicating an abnormal power/temperature situation in the data center. Power

Center detects:

• Pre-defined events

• Custom events

Power Center uses port 6553 to listen for internal events. If another application is configured to use port

6553, you must change it to reserve port 6533 for Power Center.

Power Center uses port 162 to listen for events from external devices. If the SNMP Trap service exists and

uses port 162, Power Center automatically uses port 1162 to receive external events forwarded by the

SNMP trap service.

In the left pane, click Events. The Events screen is displayed. On this screen, you can:

• Acknowledge Events

• Add a note to an event

• Delete events

• Sort events

• Filter events

• Export events

Pre-defined events

A predefined event is an event that Power Center defines based on system conditions. Device support for

events includes:

• PDU/UPS devices – To receive events, you must subscribe to the event from the console of that PDU

or UPS.

• Dell PowerEdge tower and rack servers – Support all IPMI events (IPMI Power Unit, IPMI Power

Supply, IPMI Processor Temperature Trip, IPMI Fan).

• Dell PowerEdge blade servers – Only support IPMI Processor Temperature Trip events.

• Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC) – Only supports the IPMI trap format. To receive

events from an iDRAC device, make sure the alert function is enabled and the IPMI trap format is

selected for all Power Center-supported events in the iDRAC management console (IPMI Power Unit,

IPMI Power Supply, IPMI Processor Temperature Trip, IPMI Fan). For example, in the iDRAC7

management console, you must select IPMI trap for all PWR/PSU/CPU/Fan-related alerts.