HP Insight Control Power Management 7.3 User

1 Introduction
HP Insight Control power management (power management) is a component of HP Insight Control
to work on Windows, HP Insight Control for Linux to work on Linux, HP-UX 11i v3 Base Operating
Environment to work on HP-UX, OpenVMS Base Operating Environment to work on OpenVMS,
and NonStop System Console companion DVD to work on the NonStop J-series operating system.
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 the 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 power/thermal footprint by
changing the Power Regulator mode, adjusting the Power Cap setting, or invoking the
user-created predefined rules and actions.
• Intelligent power discovery. Insight Control power management enables you to capture accurate
power data across racks and rows of servers to identify and eliminate areas of waste, extend
the life of your data center, and ensure uptime by eliminating human error during power
planning and provisioning.
Insight Control power management enables you to do the following:
• Define and execute rules for responding to environmental emergencies and other events
requiring changes in data center power usage.
• Visualize the layout of systems and devices in racks and data center floors — summarizing
temperature and power consumption.
• Monitor and manage power consumption through HP intelligent power distribution units (PDUs)
or compliant third-party PDUs.
• 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, enclosures, racks, and
power delivery devices.
• Review CPU performance, including the impact of power-saving technology.
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