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Appendix C – Cisco EnergyWise
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ePower creates separate Cisco EnergyWise entities for itself and each
of the outlets on the ePower PDU. For example, on a 24-outlet ePower
PDU, there would be 25 entities listed in the Cisco EnergyWise domain.
The PDU entity’s properties are set by way of the configuration fields
in the Setup > Interfaces > Cisco EnergyWise section, described
above. The outlets’ properties are individually set by way of the
configuration fields available in each outlet’s overlay popup (which
can be found on the Home page, by clicking the outlet’s caption).
NOTE These settings can also found from the Command Line Interface
and Web Services as well.
The ePower PDU’s entity reflects the “overhead” that is needed to
run the PDU itself. This entity is in the CONSUMER category,
indicating that it is actually using the energy being reported by way of
Cisco EnergyWise, and is read-only in that it always uses a level of 10.
The ePower outlet entities are in the METER category with a class of
ACTUAL due to ePower’s billing-grade accuracy, and report the energy
being consumed by the equipment connected to the outlets. These
entities are read/write; setting the level to 0 results in the outlet being
turned Off, and setting the level to a non-zero value (1-10) results in
the outlet being turned On.
All Cisco EnergyWise attributes (name, keywords, importance, level,
and so forth) for the PDU itself and each of the outlets are
maintained separately.