HP Insight Control 7.3 Update 1 Getting Started Guide

8 Optimizing server power consumption and cooling
Insight Control power management is an integrated application that provides centralized monitoring
and control of server power consumption and thermal output, allows you to set power regulation
policies for groups of servers, and optimizes and controls usage of data center power and cooling
facilities.
Power management features enable you to track power consumption and increase the capacity
of your data center by reducing power and cooling requirements of servers to an amount that
reflects the workload of the servers.
Launching power management features
Table 6 Launching power management features
DescriptionFrom the CMS management console GUI
Tools→Integrated Consoles→Power
Management...
• Provides access to all power management capabilities through a
single console view.
• Provides options to define and edit data centers, racks, power
delivery devices, and undiscoverable systems.
• Enables you to view power and thermal capacity and consumption
summaries for all systems with drill-down to detailed historical reports
and power capacity settings.
Enables the definition and execution of pre-defined responses when
the power and cooling capacity of the data center is interrupted or
reduced.
Tools→Data Center Power Control...
Provides the following options:Tools→PDU Management Module
• Outlet Locator... Enables you to remotely control the outlet
identification light (UID LED) of an HP Intelligent PDU (iPDU).
• Outlet Power... Enables you to remotely enable or disable the power
of the outlets in an HP Intelligent PDU (iPDU).
Provides the following options:Configure→Power Management
• Power Usage Controls... configures power regulator and power
capping on supported servers.
• Configure Alerts... enables you to configure power threshold alerts
for one or more servers.
Offers the following report options:Reports→Power Management
• Display Power/Thermal data... enables you to display power
utilization of selected servers, enclosures, power delivery devices,
and racks.
• Export Report... enables you to generate or schedule a report with
power and thermal data for a given time interval for selected
systems.
• Refresh Power/Thermal Data... enables you to refresh power and
thermal data for selected systems.
• Clear Calculated Power History… enables you to clear calculated
power history.
• Calculate Power History… enables you to calculate power history.
Enables you to set user-defined power management collection and
reporting options.
Options→Power Management...
Enables the definition and execution of pre-defined responses when
the power and cooling capacity of the data center is interrupted or
reduced.
Options→Data Center Power Control Rules...
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