- 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
Install Power Manager
To monitor power and thermal data for devices or groups, install the Power Manager plug-in 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 plug-in catalog and plug-in 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 plug-in on OpenManage Enterprise restarts the appliance services.
To install the plug-in, perform the following steps:
Steps
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In OpenManage Enterprise, click
.
The Console and Plugins screen is displayed.
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In the
Plugins section, click
Install for the plugin you want to install.
The Install and update multiple plugins wizard is displayed.
- From the Plugins available for install list, select the plugin(s) that you want to install, and then click Next.
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View the progress of the plugin you selected to install under the
Download section, and then click
Next on completion.
NOTE:The download will continue if you leave the wizard.
- Click End User License Agreement > Accept > Next.
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To confirm the installation, select
I agree that I have captured a backup of the OpenManage Enterprise appliance prior to performing a plugin action option, and then click
Finish.
The status of installation operation is displayed. After the successful installation of the plugin, the status that appears on the top of the plugin section changes from Available or Downloaded to Installed.
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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
Refresh Power Manager capabilities 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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