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Contents

Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 7

SL-APM overview ....................................................................................................................................... 7

SL-APM front view ............................................................................................................................ 7

SL-APM rear view ............................................................................................................................ 8

HP ProLiant SL Advanced Power Manager Distribution Module .............................................................. 9

HP Intelligent Modular PDU Managed Extension Bar ............................................................................ 9

Naming and numbering conventions ................................................................................................ 10

Automatic discovery ....................................................................................................................... 14

Installation and configuration ....................................................................................................... 15

Prerequisites for installation ...................................................................................................................... 15

Preparing for installation .......................................................................................................................... 15

Installing the SL-APM hardware ................................................................................................................. 15

Configuring the SL-APM for the first time ..................................................................................................... 15

Configuring the SL-APM ........................................................................................................................... 15

Serial port configuration ................................................................................................................. 17

Network configuration ................................................................................................................... 17

Duplicating the configuration .................................................................................................................... 18

Command Line Interface .............................................................................................................. 19

Command line conventions ....................................................................................................................... 19

Accessing the SL-APM command line interface ............................................................................................ 19

Accessing the SL-APM through SSH .................................................................................................. 19

Accessing the SL-APM through Telnet ............................................................................................... 19

Accessing the SL-APM through the serial port .................................................................................... 20

Saving configurations .............................................................................................................................. 20

Topology and inventory ........................................................................................................................... 20

Showing the rack .......................................................................................................................... 20

Showing the servers ....................................................................................................................... 22

Showing topology ......................................................................................................................... 22

Showing assetinfo ......................................................................................................................... 22

Showing the MAC address ............................................................................................................. 24

SL-APM logging .......................................................................................................................... 25

Overview of logging ................................................................................................................................ 25

Internal logging ....................................................................................................................................... 25

Showing and clearing the event log ................................................................................................. 25

Showing and clearing the fault log .................................................................................................. 26

External logging ...................................................................................................................................... 27

SL-APM fault messages ............................................................................................................................. 27

Power capping ........................................................................................................................... 29

Power capping overview .......................................................................................................................... 29

Power capping requirements ..................................................................................................................... 29

SL-APM management requirements ............................................................................................................ 30

Power capping and measurement tolerance ................................................................................................ 30

Invalidating a power baseline ................................................................................................................... 30

Power capping licensing .......................................................................................................................... 31