HP Insight Control Power Management 7.0 User Guide

Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption
HP Insight Control power management supplies pre-defined rules for reducing power consumption
through the Data Center Power Control facility. To create rules specific to your environment, start
with one of the pre-defined rules, customize it for your environment, and then mark it as "Ready
for Use".
Task: Defining rules for external events
Data Center Power Control rules can be invoked manually or automatically using the mxexec
command to respond to external events.
To invoke a rule manually, use the mxexec command. For more information on mxexec command,
see mxexec command in HP Systems Insight Manager Command Line Interface Reference Guide
available at http://h18002.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
To start a rule automatically, invoke the mxexec command to define a custom CMS tool that would
run the rule. For information on creating the custom CMS tools, see Chapter 19 Systems Insight
Manager custom tools in HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide available at http://
h18002.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html. The custom CMS
tools for invoking Data Center Power Control rules must have the following settings:
• The maximum number of targets the tool can select when creating the task is None. Targets
are selected by the filters in the rule definition.
• Command with parameters: mxexec -t DCPC -A rule-ID
You can view the rule-ID for a rule in the rule list on the Data Center Power Control Rules
page.
After the custom CMS tool is created, you can launch it automatically when an event occurs with
Automatic Event Handling facility of Systems Insight Manager. for more information, see Chapter
7 Automatic event handling in HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide. You can also configure
this as a scheduled task with Scheduled Tasks facility of Systems Insight Manager. For information
on managing tasks, see HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide.
Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators
You can authorize users, who perform the role of an operator, to run certain required rules using
the Data Center Power Control facility.
To authorize an operator to run a rule, perform the following:
1. From the New Rule or Edit Rule section of the Data Center Power Control Rules page, click
Permissions. The Permissions section appears at the bottom of the New Rule or Edit Rule
section of the Data Center Power Control Rules page.
2. Select the operator name from the Other users column and click to move it into the Users with
explicit permission to run the rule column to add permission to the user for this rule. You can
also include permission for more than one user for a rule.
3. Click Save Permissions to save the changes. The operator is authorised to run the required
rules.
4. The operator must also be authorized for the DCPC tool for each possible target of a rule
through the Monitor Tools toolbox or a Custom Toolbox which includes the DCPC Tool. The
administrator (with authorization to configure Central Management Server security) must
establish this through Options→Security→Users and Authorizations.
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