HP Insight Control Power Management 6.2 User Guide

you through the steps of configuring power management to provide you that holistic view, and help you
understand and control your power and cooling requirements.
Step 1: Identifying/Discovering your IT systems
HP Systems Insight Manager provides a discovery mechanism to find all networked IT systems on your local
network. This software can identify, classify, and communicate with a wide variety of systems such as servers,
enclosures, management processors, power distribution units, power distribution racks, and uninterruptible
power systems (UPS) – from HP as well as systems from other manufacturers.
For more information on the setup and discovery process, see HP Systems Insight Manager documentation
at http://h18002.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/hpsim/infolibrary.html.
To successfully obtain the complete information of the systems through Systems Insight Manager, perform
the following:
1. Provide sign-in credentials for each system configured in Systems Insight Manager either through Global
Credentials, or by specifying credentials for individual systems using the Options→Discovery
configuration.
2. Apply Insight Control license on each of the HP ProLiant systems to enable power management. For HP
Integrity systems, you need not apply any license as the systems are licensed per-core.
3. Setup all systems to be discovered by Systems Insight Manager or use the already available power
configuration data using the import facility.
After you have completed identification and discovery of your IT systems and power management has
collected configuration data for your systems, you can start investigating more about the overall systems in
your data center.
Step 2: Understanding the operational range of individual IT systems
After identifying the systems and running initial discovery and data collection steps, you can utilize the
Power/Thermal Analysis views page to get a quick and high-level view of power management properties
of the system. For detailed Power/Thermal data report of a given system, click on the Power Summary Meter
of that system.
As you have viewed the power capabilities and consumption details of a system, you can also view the
aggregated values of power capabilities and consumption details for entire racks or areas of your data
center floor by performing the tasks mentioned in the following steps.
Step 3: Finding thermal hot-spots in your data center
Insight Control power management provides detailed monitoring data, which you can use in different ways
to determine the power and cooling capabilities of the devices in your data center. While the overall cooling
in your data center may be sufficient, there may be areas that are insufficiently cooled due to various reason
such as poor airflow, concentration of excessive heat output, or wrap-around airflow at the ends of aisles.
One convenient way to investigate such issues is by a visualization of the temperature in different areas of
your data center. To accomplish this, you need to first describe the physical positions of your systems. Power
Management enables you to create Power/Layout diagrams for systems placed in racks and racks placed
in rows of a data center (or portion of a data center).
To generate your data center Power/Layout views, perform the following:
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