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Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 2.0 User’s Guide

Add devices to Power Manager

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.

About this task

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:
  1. In OpenManage Enterprise, click Devices > Run Inventory option.
  2. 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

  1. Launch OpenManage Enterprise, and then click Plugins > Power Management > Power Manager Devices.
    The Power Manager Devices tab is displayed.
  2. Click Individual Devices > Add device(s).
    The Add Devices to Power Manager page is displayed.
  3. 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.
  4. Optional: To filter and view the data:
    1. Click Advanced Filters.

    The following filters are displayed:

    • Health State
    • Power State
    • Connection State
    • Name
    • Identifier
    • Model
    • Type
    • Managed State
  5. Optional: To clear the filters, click Clear All Filters.
  6. To view the selected devices, click the Selected Devices tab.
  7. 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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