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November 27th, 2012 15:00
How to set thresholds for PDU based groups?
How can I set a threshold for a custom group that only contains PDUs? When a group only contains PDUs the Current Power shows as No Data even though when you click on one of the PDUs it's PDU Dashboard show a wattage draw.
I need to do this as I run PDUs in Primary/Secondary with all servers plugged into both PDUs. The PDUs are plugged into different UPSs so if a leg goes out all devices rely on the other side. This means I need to monitor that my aggregate between the two PDUs is 5760W (80% of 7200w)
cameronredux
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November 27th, 2012 16:00
This is for OpenManage Power Center
cameronredux
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December 13th, 2012 10:00
anybody?
hai Phung
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December 15th, 2012 12:00
Cameron, the dashboard shows the current power consumption of a group. Power Center manges or monitors the power consumption of the servers that are connected to the PDU, not the power consumption of the PDUs themselves.
The threshold is set for control the power consumption of a group. As mentioned above, Power Center does not manage or monitor the power consumption of the PDU. However, I do not quite sure to understnad your purpose of setting the threshold for a group that only contains PDUs.
cameronredux
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December 17th, 2012 14:00
I want it so I can get circuit threshold warnings when a primary/secondary PDU pair go over an aggregate 80% draw.
I don't use Power Center to control or limit anything. It's only for monitoring and alerting for me.
When I look at an individual PDU in OMPC it shows how much load is on that PDU which is great but then I have to manually add primary PDU load with seconary PDU load and calc if it is still under 80% agg for the circuit. I would like OMPC to do that for me so I get email alerts if the agg draw on a PDU pair is at warning of 75% or critical of 80%
I do this because even though each primary and secondry PDU is on it's own 30A circuit my servers are connected to both primary and secondary PDUs so if one PDU fails the other PDU needs to handle the entire load and do do withing an 80% threshold.