To collect and monitor power and thermal utilization, and airflow data of devices, add the devices in
Power Manager.
Prerequisites
Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:
The devices have
OpenManage Enterprise Advanced and the required management console licenses. For more information, see the
License requirements.
Devices are discovered in OpenManage Enterprise. For information about discovering devices, see
OpenManage Enterprise User's Guide.
The modular server is not in a
Proxied state in OpenManage Enterprise.
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To view the list of devices that are compatible with
Power Manager, before running the inventory in OpenManage Enterprise and immediately after the installation, perform the following steps:
In OpenManage Enterprise, click
Devices > Run Inventory option.
Click
Plugins > Power Management > Power Manager Devices > Refresh the list for Power Manager capabilities option.
The list of devices compatible with
Power Manager is displayed when you start to add the devices from OpenManage Enterprise.
To add devices, perform the following steps:
Steps
Launch OpenManage Enterprise, and then click
Plugins > Power Management > Power Manager Devices.
The
Power Manager Devices tab is displayed.
Click
Individual Devices > Add device(s).
The
Add Devices to
Power Manager page is displayed.
View all the devices that are discovered in OpenManage Enterprise by expanding the
SYSTEM GROUPS section on the left side and in the
All Devices tab, select the devices that you want to add.
Optional: To filter and view the data:
Click
Advanced Filters.
The following filters are displayed:
Health State
Power State
Connection State
Name
Identifier
Model
Type
Managed State
Optional: To clear the filters, click
Clear All Filters.
To view the selected devices, click the
Selected Devices tab.
To add the devices, click
Add Selected.
All the devices added individually to
Power Manager are displayed on the
Individual Devices tab along with the total count of devices that are added to
Power Manager.
All the individual devices and devices that are part of the selected group, are added to
Power Manager and are displayed on the
All Monitored Devices tab along with the total count of devices.
Results
After adding the devices and groups in Power Manager the following changes are added:
After adding the devices or groups to Power Manager, if the server is running iDRAC version 4.40.40.0 or above (and is a
supported model), Power Manager automatically enables the iDRAC’s Telemetry Streaming configuration and creates a custom Metric Report Definition for collecting data from servers.
If the added device host Virtual Machines (VMs) and the hypervisors are compatible with Power Manager, then the VMs are listed in the
Power Manager Devices tab. For information about viewing VMs, see
View virtual machines. For the list of compatible operating systems for monitoring VMs, see
Virtual Machines
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