HP Insight Control Power Management 6.2 User Guide

1 Introduction
Overview
HP Insight Control power management (power management) is a component of HP Insight Control to work
on Windows and Linux, HP-UX 11i v3 Base Operating Environment to work on HP-UX, and OpenVMS Base
Operating Environment to work on OpenVMS. Power management is an HP Systems Insight Manager plug-in
application that provides centralized monitoring and control of server power consumption and thermal output,
sets power regulation policies for groups of servers, and optimizes and controls usage of data center power
and cooling facilities.
Insight Control power management differs from other management applications in the following key areas:
• Automated power collection. After you enter power management configurations, power management
automatically sends commands to appropriate systems for periodic data gathering.
• Operating system independence. Insight Control power management supports all operating systems
that are supported on ProLiant and Integrity servers, and BladeSystem c-Class enclosures. For a list of
these operating systems, see http://www.hp.com/go/supportos.
• Demonstrated power management savings. Insight Control power management displays the
monetary savings in a convenient and easy-to-read format.
• Power Control. Insight Control power management controls and adapts power/thermal footprint by
changing the Power Regulator mode, adjusting the Power Cap setting, or invoking the user created
pre-defined rules and actions.
Insight Control power management enables you to:
• Define and execute rules for responding to environmental emergencies and other events requiring
changes in data center power usage.
• Visualize the layout of devices in racks and data center floors – summarizing temperature and power
consumption.
• Graphically summarize the power/thermal capacity and utilization of your power and cooling
infrastructure, including warnings on potential errors, lack of redundancy and anomalous
configuration/monitoring data.
• Import/export power and location configuration data from spreadsheets, and configuration management
repositories.
• Graphically monitor and manage power consumption for a single c-Class enclosure, a group of c-Class
enclosures, a single system/power delivery device, a group of systems/power delivery devices, or a
mix of the above systems using a central user interface. Also, monitor and manage power consumption
for a data center and a rack.
• Group systems logically and physically using native Systems Insight Manager collections and views
grouping capabilities (for example Rack 42 or All Exchange Servers).
• Change the Power Cap setting for one or many systems at a time.
• Review CPU performance including the impact of power-saving technology.
• Chart inlet air temperature for a single system, a group of systems, a single c-Class enclosure, a group
of c-Class enclosures or a mix of the above systems. View a visualization of 24-hour peak temperatures
across a data center floor, and within each rack.
• Download historical data in CSV format to create customized reports.
• View dashboard analysis data, including power savings due to HP Power Regulator technology, for a
single system or group of systems.
• Quickly and easily configure/change Power Regulator settings across multiple systems.
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