Users Guide
The Profiles tab allows you to choose a power profile to maximize your system’s performance and
conserve energy.
Alert Management
Subtabs: Alert Actions | SNMP Traps
Use the Alert Actions tab to set system alert actions for various system events like System Power Probe
Warning and System Peak Power.
Use the SNMP Traps tab to configure SNMP traps for your system.
Certain Power Management features may be available only on systems enabled with the Power
Management Bus (PMBus).
Power Supplies
Click the Power Supplies object to manage your system’s power supplies. Server Administrator monitors
power supply status, including redundancy, to ensure that each power supply present in your system is
functioning properly.
The Power Supplies object action window can have the following tabs, depending on the user's group
privileges: Properties and Alert Management.
NOTE: Power Supply Monitoring and Power Monitoring features are available only for systems that
have two or more redundant, hot-swappable power supplies installed. These features are
unavailable for permanently installed, non-redundant power supplies that lack power management
circuitry.
Properties
Subtab: Elements
Under the Properties tab, you can:
• View information about your power supply redundancy attributes.
• Check the status of individual power supply elements, including the Firmware Version of the power
supply, and Maximum Output Wattage.
• Check the status of individual power supply elements, including the Firmware Version of the power
supply, Rated Input Wattage, and Maximum Output Wattage. The Rated Input Wattage attribute is
displayed only on PMBus systems starting 11G.
Alert Management
Subtabs: Alert Actions | SNMP Traps
Under the Alert Management tab, you can:
• View current alert actions settings and set the alert actions that you want to be performed in the event
that a system power returns a warning or failure value.
• Configure Platform Event Alert destinations for IPv6 addresses.
• View current SNMP trap alert thresholds and set the alert threshold levels for system power watts. The
selected traps are triggered if the system generates a corresponding event at the selected severity
level.
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