- Notes, cautions, and warnings
- Revision history
- Introduction to Power Manager
- New features
- Compatibility matrix
- License requirements
- Scalability and performance
- Getting started with Power Manager
- Back up and restore 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 plug-in
- Manage individual devices and static groups
- Manage physical groups
- Manage virtual machine groups
- Maintain alert thresholds
- Maintain policies
- Managing unmonitored devices
- Manage PDU and UPS devices
- Alerts
- Reports in Power Manager
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix
- Other information you may need
OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager Version 3.1 User’s Guide
Create physical groups through CSV file
Use the import feature to create physical groups and add devices to rack slots in Power Manager by importing new or existing physical group details through a CSV file, instead of manually creating the physical groups with hierarchies.
About this task
- Only Administrators can import the CSV files.
- The script checks if the devices are discovered in OpenManage Enterprise.
- Ensure that the physical group you are creating adheres to the hierarchy as follows:
Table 1. Supported hierarchy formatThe following table lists each physical group level and its supported hierarchy and mentions if it is a mandate parameter for creating physical groups. Physical group Supported hierarchies Data Center Room, Aisle, Rack Room Aisle, Rack Aisle Rack Rack Not applicable - When creating a rack in physical group, ensure that you provide the rack name, power capacity, and space capacity.
- Each physical group and their siblings in a physical group hierarchy are identified by a unique name.
- To add a device in the physical group:
- Ensure that only one device detail is entered in each row. A device is identified by a unique identifier. The identical devices are ignored while importing, and only the unique devices are added in a rack slot.
- To place the device in a particular slot, ensure that you provide the rack slot information.
- When you are considering multiple device allocations on the same physical group hierarchy, you can duplicate the fields. However, only the rack slot and device identifier are unique fields.
- View details about the import job by selecting the Physical Group CSV Import Task job on the Jobs page. You can view the status about each row added in the file on the Execution Details page.
Steps
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Launch OpenManage Enterprise and click
.
The Power Manager Devices tab is displayed.
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Click
Physical Groups and then click
Import.
The Import physical groups from CSV file page is displayed.
- Optional:
To view the format of the CSV file, click
Download sample file.
A sample CSV file is downloaded which you can use as a reference for adding the groups information.
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To upload the CSV file and create the physical groups, click
Import CSV file.
The groups are created successfully after importing the CSV file for valid entries.
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