- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Introduction to Power Manager
- Revision history
- What is new in this release
- Compatibility matrix
- License requirements
- Scalability and performance
- Getting started with Power Manager
- Create a device discovery job
- Monitor and manage Power Manager devices
- Rack management
- Manage data center during power reduction
- Quick access to Power Manager data
- View power and thermal history of Power Manager groups
- Add groups to the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard
- View top five energy consumers
- View ratio of devices discovered in OpenManage Enterprise to devices added in Power Manager
- View top ten power offenders
- View top ten temperature offenders
- View top ten underutilized racks for power and space
- View power and space headroom
- View power history of virtual machines and virtual machine groups
- View idle servers
- Maintain Power Manager
- Manage Power Manager plugin
- Manage individual devices and static groups
- Manage physical groups
- Manage virtual machine groups
- Maintain alert thresholds
- Maintain policies
- Managing unmonitored devices
- Manage PDU devices
- Uninstalling Power Manager
- Alerts
- Reports in Power Manager
- Update Power Manager
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Other information you may need
Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 3.0 User’s Guide
Install Power Manager
To monitor power and thermal data for devices or groups, install the Power Manager plugin on OpenManage Enterprise.
Prerequisites
- Connectivity to the repository is successful:
- To connect to an online repository, connect to downloads.dell.com portal through proxy server, if any, for a secure connection.
- To connect to an offline repository, ensure that the offline server is configured with required plugin catalog and plugin installation files.
For more details, see OpenManage Enterprise User's Guide.
- Ensure that you have the compatible or latest version of OpenManage Enterprise. To see the list of compatible OpenManage Enterprise versions with Power Manager, see Compatibility matrix of Power Manager and OpenManage Enterprise.
About this task
NOTE Installing a plugin on OpenManage Enterprise restarts the appliance services.
To install the plugin, perform the following steps:
Steps
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Launch Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise, and then click
.
The Console and Plugins page is displayed.
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In the
Power Manager section, click
Install.
The Install Plugin page is displayed.
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Select the plugin version (if there are multiple versions of the plugin that is supported on existing OpenManage Enterprise version) from the
Available Version(s) drop-down menu and review to ensure that you meet the list of prerequisites that are mentioned in the
Prerequisites section.
NOTE Only the versions of the plugin that is supported on the installed version of OpenManage Enterprise is listed in the Available Version(s) drop-down menu.
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Click
Download plugin.
The progress of download is displayed, and then the plugin is downloaded and the status of the plugin is updated to Downloaded on the Console and Plugins page.
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In
Install Details page, click
Install plugin.
The Install Plugin window is displayed.
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Click
Install Plugin.
The End User License Agreement window is displayed.
- Review the agreement and then click Accept option.
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The details of the number of users who are logged in to OpenManage Enterprise, tasks in progress, and schedule jobs are displayed in the confirmation window.
To confirm the installation, select the I agree that I have captured a snapshot of the OpenManage Enterprise appliance prior to performing a plugin action. option, and then click Confirm Install.
The status of the installation is displayed.- To instantly view the latest list of devices and groups that are part of Power Manager as a result of any license changes made on the target devices, click Run Inventory in OpenManage Enterprise, and then click the Refresh Power Manager capabilities option on the Power Manager Devices page.
- View the count of overall power-capable devices from the Power Manager Devices Statistics section of the OpenManage Enterprise dashboard.
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