OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 1 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Dell OpenManage Power Center Version 1.
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OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 3 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Contents 1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . . . . 13 Hardware Requirements for Server System .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 4 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Use Case 8: Comparing Two or More Devices/Groups . 3 Installing and Launching . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Installing Power Center . Installed Directories Power Center Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Launching Power Center 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer Access Control . . . . . . . . . 28 .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 5 Friday, March 2, 2012 Deleting a User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Managing Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 Device Discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Manage Role/User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Global Configuration View Device/Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Manage Device/Group Manage Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 48 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book 7 Page 6 Friday, March 2, 2012 Editing Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Deleting Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Filtering Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Sorting Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Group Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mapping Group Structure Information . Physical Groups 64 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 7 Friday, March 2, 2012 Managing Logical Groups . 10:33 AM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding a Logical Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding Devices or Groups to a Logical Group Editing Logical Groups 74 74 . . 75 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Deleting Logical Groups. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Viewing Logical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78 10 Power Monitoring .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 8 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Monitoring Temperature of Devices/Groups . Temperature Dashboard . . . . . . 92 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 . 94 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 Printing Temperature Monitoring/Dashboard Graph . 12 Power Policies How Does a Dynamic Power Policy Work? Power Policy Capabilities. . . . . . . 96 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 . . . . . . 98 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 9 Friday, March 2, 2012 Adding a Device or Group . Printing the Comparison Result Pre-defined Events Custom Events . 107 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107 . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 Removing/Changing Device or Group 14 Event Management 10:33 AM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 10 Friday, March 2, 2012 16 Configuring Power Center . Monitoring Settings . . . . . . . . . . 126 127 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Protocol Type Device Timeout Settings . . . . . . . . 128 . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128 Energy Consumption Settings . Database Policy Settings Installation Settings . 126 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Default Units Settings . SNMP Traps Settings 10:33 AM . . . . . . . . . .
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 11 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Overview Dell OpenManage Power Center is a power management solution for the data center. It enables you to monitor and manage power consumption and temperature in your data center through the management console. Features The following table lists the features provided by OpenManage Power Center. Table 1-1.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 12 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Topology The following figure shows how to use a Web browser to access the Power Center server and manage the data center.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 13 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM System Requirements Hardware Requirements for Server System You must install Power Center on a system with at least: • A dual-core processor of 2.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 14 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Hardware and Software Requirements for Devices Power Center defines the following hardware and software requirements for supported devices: • The server device must comply with Dell iDRAC6/iDRAC7. • Power Distribution Unit (PDU) or Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS) devices comply with the Management Information Base (MIB) provided by their vendor through SNMP interface.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 15 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 1-2.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 16 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 2 Getting Started This chapter introduces the Power Center management console and presents several use cases that describe standard usages of Power Center. Management Console Introduction To use the Power Center functions, you must open a Web browser and log into Power Center.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 17 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 2-1. Available Actions Main Page Available Actions on This Page Getting Started This page introduces the Dell OpenManage Power Center features and the initial setup steps, and lists additional tasks you can complete after the setup. You can select a video from the video liberary to help you get started, or you can click help links to get additional information.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 18 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 2-1. Available Actions Main Page Available Actions on This Page Compare This page enables you to compare power and temperature status and energy consumption between the selected groups/devices. You can also print the comparison results. Settings → Settings This page enables you to view or configure all the settings. Settings → User Accounts This page enables you to set up and manage the user accounts.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 19 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 5 Creating the data center group structure 6 Monitoring power/temperature/events of a device or group 7 Creating power policies 8 Comparing two or more devices/groups Use Case 1: Installing Power Center This use case describes how to install Power Center. 1 Make sure the system meets the software and hardware requirements. See "System Requirements" in the "Overview" chapter. 2 Click OpenManagePowerCenter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 20 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Go to the Discovery page to add devices from the network. 2 Configure the search criteria for the devices you want to discover. See "Adding a Device from the Network" in the "Device Discovery" chapter. 3 The discovered devices appear in the Device List page. Use Case 4: Managing Devices This use case describes how to manage devices after they are discovered.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 21 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Use Case 6: Monitoring Power / Temperature / Events of a Device or Group This use case describes how to monitor power/temperature details and events of a device or group. 1 Go to the Power Overview page, and select the device or group you want to monitor. 2 Check the various tabs: • The Power Details tab shows the power details for the device/group. See the "Power Monitoring" chapter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 22 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Go to the Compare page. 2 Select two or three devices or groups to compare. See "Adding a Device or Group" in the "Comparing" chapter. 3 Set the time frame for comparison. You can use this feature to compare power/temperature data for the same devices/group in different time ranges. See "Changing the Time Period" in the "Comparing" chapter. 4 Optionally, click Print to print the comparison results.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 23 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 3 Installing and Launching This chapter explains how to install, uninstall and launch Power Center. After Power Center is installed, you may need to change the account for Power Center services for better security, or you can use a Web browser to launch the Power Center management console to start using it. You can also uninstall it when you no longer need it.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 24 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: The password must be more than 5 characters, and cannot contain non-ANSI characters and double quotes ("). • HTTPS Certificate Information — Enter your information for the HTTPS certificate, including your name, organization, address, state, country code. The information will be used for certificate management. Click Next.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book • Page 25 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM PostgreSQL Data Directory — The location of PostgreSQL data. If you enabled the option "Use another database server", you do not need to enter information for this field. Click Next.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 26 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: User names with Chinese characters are not supported due to the limitation of Java Kerberos related library implementation. • Kerberos Pre-authentication User Password — Enter the password for the Kerberos pre-authentication account. Click Next. 10 In the Ready to Install the Program screen, click Install. 11 After installation completes, click Finish to exit the installation wizard.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 27 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Dell OpenManage Power Center — Apache Tomcat server accommodating the Power Center web application which passes action requests to the Power Center server. • Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server — The PostgreSQL internal database for Power Center. • Dell OpenManage Power Center SNMP Dispatcher — If Windows SNMP Trap service is installed, it reroutes SNMP traps to Dell OpenManage Power Center Server service.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 28 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM If you did not check the option "Use another database server" during the installation, the uninstall program removes the Power Center database and configurations. If you checked the option "Use another database server" and used another database during the installation, the uninstall program does not uninstall the database.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 29 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM To disable this feature in Windows 2003 Server: 1 Go to Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs → Add/Remove Windows Components. 2 Uncheck the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration check box. 3 Click Next, and then click Finish. To trust the Power Center site/links: 1 Go to Internet Explorer → Tools → Internet Options → Security. 2 Click Trusted Sites, add about: Blank in trusted sites.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 30 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 4 Access Control This chapter provides information about the access control in Power Center, including: • Log in/Log out — You can log into Power Center by entering a user account or by Kerberos Single Sign-On (SSO). • User/Role/Privilege Management — After you have logged in, you can manage user accounts in the management console. Power Center provides role-based access control.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 31 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM only supports Kerberos-based SSO. For more information on SSO, see "Single Domain Environment" and "Multiple Domain Environment" in this chapter. NOTE: You cannot log into Power Center locally using SSO, i.e., you cannot log into Power Center using SSO on the Power Center server. You only can log into Power Center using SSO remotely. NOTE: You must add the SSO user account to Power Center before you can log in using SSO.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 32 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Log in Using Your Power Center Account To log in using your Power Center Account: 1 Select Power Center Account (default). 2 Enter the User Name. This is the user name of the Power Center account. 3 Enter the Password. This is the user password of the Power Center account. 4 Click Login.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 33 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Log in Using the Windows Domain Account To log in using the Windows Domain Account: 1 Select Windows Domain Account. 2 Enter the User Name. This is the user name of the Windows domain account. 3 Enter the Password. This is the user password of the Windows domain account. 4 Enter the Domain. This is the domain name of this user account. 5 Click Login.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 34 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Log in Using the Windows Local Account To log in using the Windows Local Account: 1 Select Local Windows Account. 2 Enter the User Name. This is the user name of the local Windows account. 3 Enter the Password. This is the user password of the local Windows account. 4 Click Login. After successful login, the Getting Started page opens. Now you can start to use Power Center functions.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 35 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Log in with Single Sign-on (SSO) SSO uses centralized authentication servers that other applications and systems utilize for authentication purposes, and combines this with techniques to ensure that users do not actively have to enter their credentials more than once. Kerberos SSO requires specific domain environment settings for the Windows Active Directory (AD) domain controller, Power Center server, and Web browser.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 36 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 2 Set up AD domain controller addresses. Separate multiple addresses with a comma. For example, 192.168.0.250. 3 Specify a domain user for dcm.dell.com as Power Center server’s domain account for Kerberos SSO. This user account must be an existing and valid domain user account. For example, "Tom" and Tom’s password. Step 2.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 37 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Multiple Domain Environment The following illustration shows how to set up a multiple domain environment with the following components: • Domain Controller — There are several Windows AD domain controllers in the illustration, including the parent domain dcm.dell.com and the child domans east.dcm.dell.com and west.dcm.dell.com. • Power Center Server — server1.east.dcm.dell.com is the server with Power Center installed.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 38 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Set up SPN for Power Center service in all involved AD domain controllers. In the example, three domains are involved: dcm.dell.com, east.dcm.dell.com and west.dcm.dell.com. Repeat the following steps on each domain. 1 Log into the AD domain controller as an Administrator. 2 Open a command console.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 39 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM What's the limitation? The Web browser displays a message box requiring a Windows user name and password: • If you press OK after entering a user name and password, whether the information is correct or not, the Power Center login page appears and requires you to authenticate through the login page. • If you press Cancel, there is an HTTP Status 401 failure and you cannot log into Power Center.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 40 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • If another user is viewing the pages, this user may see inconsistent data. • If another user is performing operations on the same device, this user may receive an error message. Logging out You can log out of Power Center after completing your tasks. To log out of Power Center, click Logout at the upper right corner of the management console. Managing User Roles Power Center supports three types of pre-defined roles.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 41 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Updating a Role To update a role: 1 Go to Settings → User Accounts → User Roles, and click Edit. 2 Edit the role name, description, or privileges. 3 Click Apply. NOTE: Pre-defined roles cannot be edited. Deleting a Role To delete a role: 1 Go to Settings → User Accounts → User Roles, and click Delete. 2 Select the roles’ checkboxes to delete them. 3 Click Apply. NOTE: Pre-defined roles cannot be deleted.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book • Page 42 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Power Center Account — Create a user name and password for the Power Center account. For more information on the user name and password rules, see Step 8 of "Installing Power Center" in the "Installing and Launching" chapter. 3 Select the user roles. You can select multiple (0-4) roles to assign more privileges for the user. NOTE: If you assign user A to role 1 and role 2, it has all privileges of role 1 and role 2.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 43 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Managing Privileges A user privilege is a right to execute a particular type of Power Center function. Privileges are not configurable, however you can configure roles, which group several privileges together.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 44 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 4-1. Pages and Privileges Page Privilege and Page Status Power Overview Fully functional: For users with the "Manage Device/Group," "View Device/Group," "Manage Event" and "Manage Policy" privileges. Partially functional: Users with only "View Device/Group" and "Manage Policy" privileges cannot view Thresholds tab. Users with only "View Device/Group" and "Manage Event" privileges cannot view Policies tab.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 45 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 4-1. Pages and Privileges Page Privilege and Page Status Device List Fully functional: For users with the "View Device/Group" and "Manage Device/Group" privileges. Partially functional: Users with the "View Device/Group" privilege can view devices on this page. Not functional: Users without the "Manage Device" and "View Devices/Group" privileges will see a blank page.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 46 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 4-1. Pages and Privileges Page Privilege and Page Status Settings → Fully functional: User Accounts For users with the "Manage Role/User" privilege. Partially functional: Users without the "Manage Role/User" privilege only can view their own user information. Not functional: NA Settings → Fully functional: Licensing For users with the "Manage License" privilege.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 47 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Device Discovery The "Device Discovery" privilege enables: • Discovering network devices What happens without this privilege? You cannot see the Power Overview page in Power Center. You can view the Settings page, but cannot make any changes.
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OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 49 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM You can view the events information and add comment to the events, but cannot delete events. You cannot see the Thresholds tab in the Power Overview page. Manage License The "Manage License" privilege enables: • Importing a license What happens without this privilege? You only can view the License information, but the Import License option is not available.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 50 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM To import a license: 1 Request a license from www.dell.com/powercenter. 2 Click Import License. 3 Click Upload File. 4 Select a license file, and click Open. Power Center imports the license and brings up a message upon successful import. You can view the license information in the Licensing page. Viewing License Power Center license information includes: • Product Name — Product name. • Version — Product version.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 51 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 5 Device Discovery To manage devices in Power Center, you must add the devices to the Power Center management console first. You can add devices by discovering devices from the network, or adding devices manually. This chapter explains how to discover devices from the network and add devices manually in the Power Center management console.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 52 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Device types include server, UPS, PDU and chassis. • Set the connection protocol and credential information so that the device can communicate with Power Center. • Add or discover a supported device to the Device List. Perform management functions including discovery, adding to the group structure, monitoring power and temperature, applying power management policies, and sending events.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 53 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: Power Center server tries to get device names from the DNS server specified in the network configuration of the operating system. This may cause the device name to be different from the actual one if the DNS server resolves the device IP address to a different device name. To discover devices from the network, complete the following steps: Step 1. Enter IP Range 1 Go to the Discovery page.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 54 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 3 Select the connnection protocol(s), and click Next. Step 3. View Summary and Search Devices 1 The Summary information displays. Review the information and click Search. 2 After the search progress completes, go to the Device List page to validate that the correct devices are listed on the page. You can also perform the following tasks related to the device discovery: To edit an IP range: 1 Click Edit. 2 Enter the new IP range.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 55 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 2 Enter the device and protocol information - Required Device Information, Protocol Information, Optional Device Information - for the device you want to add. • Required Device Information: – Device Name: Enter the name of the device. – Device Type: Select a device type which includes Server, UPS, PDU, Chassis, or Unsupported.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 56 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Go to Group Management → Physical (Logical) Group → View All Physical Groups. 2 Click the selected physical/logical group icon and its device/group, and go to the Chassis level. 3 Click Rediscover Chassis Devices. The devices information in the chassis is automatically updated.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 57 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Management Controller, see "Configuration - New SSL Server Certificate Configuration" in the Using Windows Remote Management (WinRM) to Remotely Manage Dell PowerEdge M1000e Using the Chassis Management Controller (CMC) technical whitepaper. It can be downloaded from http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/dcim.modular.cmc.winrm.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 58 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 6 Device Management The Device List page lists network-discovered devices and devices added manually.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 59 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Table 6-1. Device Information Field Description Device Type Device type, including: • Server • PDU • UPS • Chassis • Unsupported Device Model Device model, for example, PowerEdge M610.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 60 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: If a device is already discovered and listed in the Device List page, when Power Center runs a discovery task and this device is discovered again, all the device information for this device is updated in the Device List page. For more information on device discovery, see "Adding a Device from the Network" in the "Device Discovery" chapter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 61 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: 1) If you selected devices with different protocol types, then you cannot edit the protocol information. 2) If you edit the protocol information and leave the User Name field empty, the user name remains unchanged. 3) If you select the Clear checkbox next to a field, the current value of this field is cleared. If you do not select the Clear checkbox and leave this field empty, the value remains unchanged. 5 Click Apply.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 62 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Go to the Device List page. 2 Click Delete Tasks → Delete All. 3 Read the pop-up message, and click Yes to continue. Filtering Devices You can apply a filter to show only specific devices, for example, devices of a certain type. To filter devices: 1 Go to the Device List page. 2 Click Filter. 3 The Filter window opens.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 63 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Physical Group — Select a physical group where the device is located. You can select any level of the physical group, including data center, room, aisle, rack, chassis. • Faceplate/De-rated Power — Enter a faceplate or de-rated power range of devices. • Power Capability — Select the power capability of the device. You can select multiple power capabilities. 5 Click Apply.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 64 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 7 Group Management You can configure several devices as a group so that you can manage them. Power Center enables you to create and organize your devices into two distinct types of groups: • Physical Group A physical group is a group of groups/devices with a structure mapping that represents the actual physical layout. For more information on how to create and manage physical groups, see the "Physical Groups" chapter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 65 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: To view the updated location information on supported device, you must 1) Make sure the device status is "Connected" in Power Center. 2) Wait a few minutes for the location information to be updated in the firmware of the device. Finding a Group or Device After the data center group structure is set up, you can find a group or device from the Power Overview or Group Management page:.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 66 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 4 The page displays the selected group/device at the right, and displays the corresponding Power Overview or Group Management page of the selected group/device. To find a logical group: 1 Go to Power Overview → Select a Logical Group. Or, go to Group Management → Select a Logical Group. The page displays the logical group list on the top. 2 Click a logical group icon to display its contents.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 67 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 8 Physical Groups A physical group is a group of groups/devices with a structure mapping that represents the actual physical layout. As an IT/facility administrator, you may need to organize devices and groups according to their physical layout in the data center. Power Center enables you to monitor power/temperature information, manage policies/events at individual device, chassis, rack, aisle, room or data center levels.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 68 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 5 Click Apply. Managing Physical Groups Adding Devices to a Physical Group After you create a physical group, you can add or associate devices to this group. To add/associate a device: 1 Click the physical group icon to open the Room Contents page. Click Add New Room, enter the Name and Description, and click Apply. 2 Click the room icon to open the Aisle Contents page.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 69 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Show additional columns: The page displays three device information columns by default (Select, Name, Status). Click Show Additional Columns to display all columns. • Filter: Use the filtering options to filter the devices. d Click Select next to the devices to add, and click Apply. The selected devices are added to the selected slot and are displayed in the Device List.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 70 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM d Repeat the previous step to select more devices and the corresponding slots. You can select multiple devices from different pages. e Click Apply. NOTE: If there are not enough slots available, the batch operation of adding devices to the rack will fail. You must re-select the devices and slots • Add associated devices to rack a Click Devices Associated with Rack → Add to Rack.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 71 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: After the device is removed, it still exists in the Device List page. You can add it to any physical group or logical group when needed. Moving Devices in a Physical Group You can move devices to update the group structure that is similar to the actual data center device structure when a device is moved physically in the data center. A server or a chassis can only be moved to another rack.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 72 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Click Move. 2 The Move Physical Group window displays the physical group structure of the physical group on top, and displays a list of physical groups (data center) under it as active links. Click an active link to expand the group to display all groups that are part of that physical group, and then select a group. 3 Click Move. The physical group is moved to the selected group.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 73 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Access from the left pane of the Power Center management console: You can click Group Management → Select a Physical Group to enter this page. This page lists all of the data centers. You can click a data center’s active link to expand the contents. • Access from the Power Overview page: You can click the Manage Group link on top of the Power Overview page to access the specific group/device content page.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 74 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 9 Logical Groups A logical group is a collection of groups and devices with a logical relation. A logical group does not need to map with the actual physical layout. For example, there can be a logical group for all print file servers or email servers. Creating a Logical Group To create a logical group: 1 Go to Power Overview → Logical Group, and click Select a Logical Group. 2 Click Add New Logical Group.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 75 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Adding Devices or Groups to a Logical Group You can add devices or groups to a logical group. Only one device or group can be added at a time. Add a device or group from one of the following categories: • Physical Group • Logical Group • All Devices NOTE: Chassis are not listed in the All Devices window; you cannot add a chassis to a logical group from the All Devices category.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 76 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Editing Logical Groups After you created a logical group, you can edit the logical group information. To edit a logical group: 1 Go to Group Management → Logical Groups, and click Select a Logical Group, then click the icons to select a group. 2 Click Edit. 3 Enter new Name and Description for the group. 4 Click Apply.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 77 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM The Logical Groups page lists all logical groups by name in alphabetical order (A-Z). You can click a logical group’s active link to view more details: • Group structure information — Click the icons to view the group structure, including physical group structure, logical group components, and devices that are directly under this logical group. • Group details — Click the tabs to view the details.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 78 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 10 Power Monitoring Power Center enables the monitoring of current or historical power-related metrics (for example, power consumption or cost). This can help you understand the power status in the data center and plan for additional power infrastructure, cooling, and facility needs.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 79 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Thresholds is useful if you want to be notified when the power of the group/device exceeds the thresholds. Once the power value exceeds a critical or warning threshold, the related event is sent. To configure thresholds: 1 Go to Power Overview → Select a Physical Group or Device or Select a Logical Group, and click the group/device icon. 2 Go to Thresholds → Power Thresholds, and click Edit.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 80 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Viewing Power Details Go to Power Overview → Physical (or Logical) Groups, click the group/device icon, and then open the Power Details tab to view its power details. The Power Details page displays different information for PDU and other devices/groups. Power Center does not provide power details for UPS.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 81 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM You can also: View power details for the current time window • Click a time window tab to see the current power details. Table 10-1.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 82 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM For example, when you view power details in the 1H (1 hour) window, the maximum value at 15:00 shows 500W and the time interval is 6 minutes, this value represents the maximum power consumption from 14:54 to 15:00 is 500W. NOTE: It is common to see some instantaneous values exceed the Power Cap value in the Maximum line. Power Center monitors this value and controls it to normal power range when this happens.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 83 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: Power Center can read the power consumption of a device when it is at S0 (On) state. For devices in S4/S5 state, Power Center uses a fixed value (30W) to calculate the power consumption. • Cooling Energy — The estimated energy consumption and cost needed to cool the selected device/group.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 84 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • If you view the PDU Dashboard from the Dashboard page of a group: The PDU Dashboard displays all PDU information in a table. • If you view the PDU Dashboard from the Dashboard page of a PDU: The PDU Dashboard displays the specific PDU information in a graph as follows: – The left and right boxes show the instantaneous power value of the PDU. – The page also lists the PDU details read from the device.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book • Page 85 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM If you view the UPS Dashboard from the Dashboard page of a UPS: The UPS Dashboard displays the specific UPS information in a graph as follows: – The left and right boxes show the temperature of the UPS. – The page also lists the UPS details read from the device. It displays NA when the data is not provided on this UPS device. Power Dashboard You can monitor the Power Center overall status in the Dashboards page.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 86 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM The dashboard graph displays: For devices (Excludes PDU and UPS): • The left box displays the average power consumption of the latest sampling interval.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 87 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Printing Power Monitoring/Dashboard Graph Click Print to print the power monitoring, power dashboard graph to a PDF file or printer. You must set the Web browser to enable the "Print Background" option and other printing settings, otherwise the results are printed either without a background or with incorrect page alignment. To enable "Print Background" in Mozilla Firefox: 1 Go to File → Page Setup → Format & Options.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 88 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 11 Temperature Monitoring Power Center enables monitoring of the current or historical temperature of the data centers in Power Center. It can help you understand the temperature status and identify hot spots in the data center.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 89 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM To configure thresholds: 1 Go to Power Overview → Physical (or Logical) Groups, and click the group/device icon. 2 Go to Thresholds → Temperature Thresholds, and click Edit. 3 Enter values for the following: • Critical thresholds for average inlet temperature - Greater — When the temperature is greater than the setting, the critical-level event "Average Inlet Temperature" is sent.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 90 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM By default, the Temperature Details graph displays temperature details of the previous hour. You can also: • View temperature details of current time window Click a time window tab to see the current temperature details. Table 11-1.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Table 11-1. Page 91 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Time Window and Time Interval Time Window Description Time Interval 1M 1 month 1 day 3M 3 months 1 week 1Y 1 year 2 weeks NOTE: The table above lists the interval when the sampling interval is at the default value (1 minute). The sampling interval change will result in the interval change of 15Min and 1H time window.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 92 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Average: The average value of the latest sampling interval. • Maximum: The maximum value of the latest sampling interval. • Minimum: The minimum value of the latest sampling interval. NOTE: You can set the time interval (the period from a time point to the next time point) in the Settings page. For more information on how to configure the interval, see "Monitoring Settings" in the "Configuring" chapter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 93 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM The dashboard graph displays: For devices (Excludes PDU and UPS): • The left box displays the average temperature status of the latest sampling interval.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 94 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM For more information on how to configure the thresholds, see "Temperature Monitoring Configuration" in the "Temperature Monitoring" chapter. Printing Temperature Monitoring/Dashboard Graph Click Print to print the temperature monitoring, and temperature dashboard graph to a PDF file or printer.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 95 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 12 Power Policies A power policy is a set of configurations used to manage the power cap for devices or groups. A policy is useful for defining power management in different situations, for example: • You can set up a policy to make sure that the power consumption does not exceed the capacity of the circuit.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 96 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM How Does a Dynamic Power Policy Work? To understand how a dynamic policy works, you need to understand the following terms first: • Consumption — The power a device is using. • Power Cap — The maximum amount of power that a device is allowed to consume (may not be equal to its demand). • Headroom — The difference between power cap and power consumption of a device or a group of devices under a power policy.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 97 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM If the average power consumption of a device becomes lower than the power cap established for the device, its power cap is evaluated and adjusted in each monitoring cycle, and the excess power is deemed as headroom for other devices to consume.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 98 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Scenario 2. You try to import a license on a device without a license imported In this case, the following happens: • If a policy exists on the devices, you will receive a "Server Capabilities Changed" event. • The Policy tab of the devices is set to Enabled in the Power Overview page. • The power capability status of the devices is changed in the Device List page. • The policy of the devices is editable.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 99 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 4 The Create New Policy window opens, set a power cap using the following steps: a Enter a policy name, maximum length of no more than 25 English characters. b Select Static or Dynamic from the Policy Type drop-down list. This step is available only when you create a policy on a rack/chassis. c Select a fixed time period to show Average Power and Maximum Power values to estimate a Power Cap value.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 100 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM NOTE: All devices are displayed on this page, but you only can configure priority for the devices that have Monitor & Capping power capability. NOTE: You can set priority levels based on the service level agreements associated with workloads running on different devices/groups. Power Center reserves more of the power for the devices/groups with a higher priority when the power cap is not completely utilized.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 101 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM data on a regular basis to avoid such impacts. To restore the policies after Power Center is corrupted, perform the following steps: 1) Reinstall Power Center. 2) Use the backup data to recover. After completing the two steps, you can use the previously-existing policies to control the devices. For more information on Power Center data backup and recovery, see the "Backup and Recovery" chapter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 102 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM For each device/group, you can set one of the three priority levels: • Low • Medium (Default) • High Priority lists are policy-specific; however a device/group may have different priority levels in different policies. A higher-priority value of a device/group in a policy overrides the lower-priority value of the same node in another policy.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 103 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Go to the Policies page or the Policies tab in the Power Overview page. 2 Click Enable/Disable. 3 Check or uncheck the Enabled box for the policy. 4 Click Apply. Displaying Policies in the Power Details Graph You can view the policies in the Power Details graph. To display a policy: 1 Go to Power Overview → Physical/Logical Groups. 2 Click the icon of the device/group, and go to the Power Details tab.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 104 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 4 Click Apply. Filtering Policies You can apply a filter to show only specific policies. To filter policies: 1 Go to the Policies page. 2 Click Filter. 3 The Filter window opens. Click a filtering option in the left pane - Policy Type, Power Cap, or Policy Status - to display a specific filtering option window. 4 In the filtering option window, use the displayed information to select the filtering options.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 105 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 4 In the Emergency Power Reduction window, read the message, and click Continue. All of the devices with the Monitor & Capping power capability within this group are set to the minimal power consumption state. The Emergency Power Reduction button appears in the upper-right corner of all pages. The devices impacted by emergency power reduction are marked with In EPR in the Power Overview and Group Management pages.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 106 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 13 Comparing Power Center enables you to add a device or a group to compare their power and temperature status and energy consumption in the selected time period. For example, you can select two rooms to compare the temperature, or select two groups with similar devices to compare their power consumption, or you can compare the data from one group in two different time periods. You can also print the comparison results.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 107 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Adding a Device or Group You can add one to three devices or groups to compare the power and temperature status. Only one device or group can be added at a time. To add a device or group: 1 Click Add Device or Group. 2 Click a category in the left pane - Physical Group, Logical Group, or All Devices - to display a specific group/device selection window.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 108 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Printing the Comparison Result To print the comparison result, click Print on the Compare page. You must set the Web browser to enable the "Print Background" option and other printing settings, otherwise the results are printed either without a background or with incorrect page alignment.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 109 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 14 Event Management This chapter provides information on event types, severity levels, supported PDU/UPS events, and how to manage the events in Power Center. You can receive events indicating an abnormal power/temperature situation in the data center.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Table 14-1. Page 110 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Pre-defined Events Type Description Severity Level Communication Power Center lost communication with the Warning with Chassis chassis. Failed Communication Power Center restored communication with Informative with Chassis the chassis. Restored Communication Power Center lost communication with the Warning With Node device.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Table 14-1. Page 111 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Pre-defined Events Type Description Severity Level UPS Bad Temperature Events related to temperature limits and exceeded thresholds in the UPS. Critical UPS Bad Input Events related to power input failure in the UPS. Critical UPS Bad Output Events related to power output failure in the Critical UPS. UPS Overload Events related to output power load limits and exceeded thresholds in the UPS.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Table 14-1. Page 112 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Pre-defined Events Type Description Severity Level PDU Outlet Off The PDU outlet is Off. Informative PDU Outlet On The PDU outlet is On. Informative Server Capabilities Changed The server capabilities have changed, for example, a license change. Warning NOTE: The "Server Capabilities Changed" event is only applicable to a device that has a policy applied.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Table 14-2. Page 113 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Custom Events Type Description Severity Level Average Inlet Temperature Average temperature is greater or less than Critical or the average value you set in the Thresholds. Warning; depends on the threshold type Max Power Power consumption is greater than the maximum value you set in the Thresholds.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 114 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • An event condition is removed from Power Center, for example, the Threshold settings. • An event condition is updated in Power Center, for example, the Threshold settings. • A power policy is removed or disabled. • "Policy Return To Normal" event is triggered.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 115 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Event Severity Levels The following table lists the severity levels for Power Center events: Table 14-4. Event Severity Levels Severity Level Icon Description Critical For errors that caused the managed devices or Power Center to stop working properly. You need to take action to solve the issue. Warning For errors that require attention. You need to look into the root cause and decide whether to take action.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 116 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Go to the Event Logs page. You can click the arrow buttons <> to see the previous/next page. Sorting Events In the Event Logs page, by default, the events are listed by Timestamp in descending order (from most recent to earlier). To sort by a field, click the Up or Down symbol next to the field to list events in ascending or descending order. The symbol of the current sorted field is displayed in orange.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 117 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM You can also manually delete events in Power Center. To delete events: 1 Go to the Event Logs page. 2 Click Delete → Delete. 3 Select the events’ checkboxes to delete them., and click Apply. To delete all events: 1 Go to the Event Logs page. 2 Click Delete → Delete All. 3 A message window appears; read the message and click Yes. All the events currently listed on the page will be deleted.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book • Page 118 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Type — Select the event type. You can select multiple event types. Only the Maximum Power, Average Power, Average Inlet Temperature and the event types that currently exist in the Event Logs page are available for selection. 5 Click Apply. The Event Logs page displays the filtered events. Filtering Events by Group/Device You can filter the events by a group or device.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 119 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • The IPMI device is added in the Device List page. • The network connection status of the IPMI device is "connected." • The Power Center server address is added in the event destination list of the IPMI device. To send a test event from an IPMI device, see the following example for Dell PowerEdge M610: 1 Access the iDRAC management console of Dell PowerEdge M610, and go to the page related to the SNMP trap setting.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 120 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 15 Security Power Center is designed to ensure data confidentiality, data integrity and the security of user authentication. Power Center not only provides authentication and access control to user accounts (see the "Access Conrol" chapter), but also protects all the communication channels to the Power Center server, and the stored sensitive data (for example, passwords ) on Power Center server.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 121 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Go to Control Panels → User Accounts, and create a new normal user (either local or domain), or select an existing normal user. For example, user A. 2 Grant Full Control permission of the following directories or files to user A.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 122 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 5 Start all Power Center services to take effect. OS Hardening To deploy Power Center security hardening configuration on an OS where you intend to install Power Center, you must configure the basic OS hardening settings as follows: • • • Installation Settings – Do not install Power Center and its database in the system volume. – Do not install Power Center and its database in the domain controller.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 123 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM For more information on Power Center supported OS, see "System Requirements" in the "Overview" chapter. Audit Log Power Center tracks critical operations and stores related information in a log file for auditing purposes. Each log includes the following basic information: • User name • Time • Action • Details: Depends on the action; see the following table. The tracked Details include: Table 15-1.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 124 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM The total size of all audit log files is limited to 20MB; they are evenly split into three log files (approximately 6.67MB each). If a new log causes the file size to exceed the limitation for a single log file, Power Center renames the log file to a new name, and stores the new log in a new log file with the original file name. When generating an audit log file, the naming rule is as follows: • audit.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book • Page 125 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Scenario 2 — Replace the self-signed certificate with a signed certificate issued by a Certification Authority (CA) A certificate signed by a CA is more likely to be trusted by the Web browsers. To sign your certificate by a CA, do the following: • – Generate a Certificate Signing Request (CSR) and submit to the CA. – Import a certificate for your CA. – Import the Certificate Reply from the CA.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 126 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 16 Configuring Power Center You can configure all the Power Center settings in the Settings page. Follow these steps: 1 Click Edit on the selected settings. 2 Enter or select a new value. 3 Click Apply. Some settings will take effect immediately; some will not. See the following sections for more specific information. Monitoring Settings These settings are used to enable/disable the monitoring and set the sampling interval.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 127 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM The default power and temperature intervals in Power Center are 1 minute. These value is appropriate for small- or medium-sized environments (where the device number is less than 1000); however, when the environment scales up with more managed devices, you must adjust the values to 3 minutes or 6 minutes. NOTE: The device number only counts the supported devices. Unsupported devices are not counted.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 128 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM When are the settings effective? Immediately. Protocol Type Device Timeout Settings These settings are used to configure the timeout between devices and the Power Center server. • IPMI — Communication timeout between Power Center and an IPMIenabled device (1-20 seconds). The default is 3 seconds. • SNMP — Communication timeout between Power Center and a SNMPenabled device (1-20 seconds). The default is 3 seconds.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 129 Friday, March 2, 2012 • Average Power • Average Inlet Temperature • Max Power • Policy Cannot Be Maintained • Policy Return To Normal • Power Return To Normal • Temperature Return To Normal 10:33 AM For more information on the event details, see "Custom Events" in the "Event Management" chapter. To send the events to a third-party application, follow these steps: Step 1.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 130 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Click Edit. 2 Enter information for fields Destination IP/Host, Port or Community Name. NOTE: 1) If the Port field is empty, Power Center will use port 162. After the setting is applied, you can refresh the page to see the port number. 2) If you leave all three fields empty, Power Center will delete this setting. 3) You can leave the Community Name field empty.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 131 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM • Data Compression — You can set the number of the days (1-14) to keep the non-compressed data. The default is 7 days. • Purge Data Older Than — You can set the number of the days (1-365) to keep the compressed data and the event logs. The default is 365 days. • Schedule Database Purging Daily at — You can set the time of day to start database purging (00:00:00 - 23:00:00). The default is 23:00:00.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book – Page 132 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM InletTemperatureMax — Maximum inlet temperature value. After you export data to a .csv file, you can: • – Use Microsoft Excel to open the .csv file and analyze the data, for example, when creating charts using the data. – Write your own application (or script) to parse the data in the .csv file. Purge Database Now — You can manually purge the database at anytime.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 133 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Before changing the database settings, the system must meet the following requirements: • The correct connection information (Server Name, Database Port, Database User Name, Database User Password) are provided. • The new database must be an existing Power Center database, and the version of PostgreSQL is 8.3.5.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 134 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 1 Log into Windows with the Administrator privilege. 2 Open a command line with the Administrator privilege. 3 Run the following command to remove the original database service (The command below assumes Power Center is installed at C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 135 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 3 Change the pg_hba.conf file (By default, pgdata of Power Center is installed at C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\pgdata): Original: # IPv4 local connections: host all password all 127.0.0.1/32 New: # IPv4 local connections: host trust all all 127.0.0.1/32 4 Start Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 136 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Current value: # IPv4 local connections: host trust all all 127.0.0.1/32 Replace to original value: # IPv4 local connections: host all password all 127.0.0.1/32 9 If you can log in with the new user name or password using the pgAdmin tool, all the settings in the previous steps are correct. Step 3. Start all Power Center services Start all Power Center services.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 137 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM The following steps assume local host is 192.168.11.11, remote database host is 192.168.11.22, and the remote database folder is located at C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\pgdata. On the remote database host: 1 Stop the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service. 2 Add your OS user with Read/Write permission to "C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\pgdata\postgresql.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 138 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Step 3. Change PostgreSQL database settings on a remote server See "Change database settings in PostgreSQL database" in the "Change to Database on the Local Systems" section of this chapter. Step 4. Start all Power Center services Start all Power Center services.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 139 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 17 Backup and Recovery You can back up and recover the data in Power Center. To support Power Center recovery, you must back up Power Center data first. Power Center only supports complete backup and recovery. It does not support incremental backup and recovery. NOTE: You should back up Power Center data on a regular basis. You may need to start or stop Power Center services during the backup and recovery.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 140 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM For a Power Center installation in C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter, the data files are located as follows: C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\conf\app.config.xml C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\conf\user.config.xml C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\conf\web.config.xml C:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apachetomcat\conf\server.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 141 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 3 Start all Power Center services. The Power Center backup is completed. Power Center Recovery When you recover Power Center data, follow the steps below for a complete recovery: 1 Install Power Center with the same version and same user inputs as the original installation. 2 Stop all Power Center services. 3 Recover all Power Center data files.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 142 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM "8643" minSpareThreads="5" maxSpareThreads="75" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192" enableLookups="true" disableUploadTimeout="true" connectionTimeout= "60000" acceptCount="100" maxThreads="200" server="localhost" allowTrace="false" scheme= "https" secure="true" SSLEnabled="true" xpoweredBy="false" keystoreFile="E:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\keystore.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 143 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM connectionTimeout="60000" acceptCount="100" maxThreads="200" server="localhost" allowTrace= "false" scheme="https" secure="true" SSLEnabled="true" xpoweredBy="false" keystoreFile="E:\Program Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter\keystore.ssl" keystorePass="DCM10!pass" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS"/> d For java.security, you must manually update the login.config.url.1 parameter with value file:${java.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 144 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM 18 Troubleshooting This chapter lists some of the known issues you may encounter when working with Power Center, and some possible solutions. • • • • Problem1: Not able to access the Power Center management console from the client browser, even though the Power Center server is running normally. – Cause: The proxy setting may prevent the browser from accessing the Power Center server on the network.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book – • • • Page 145 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Resolution: Wait one minute or more for Dell iDRAC6 devices to release the connection sessions, then try again. Problem 5: Power Center cannot receive events sent from devices. – Cause: Possible causes include: 1) Power Center is not the destination host of the events sent from devices. 2) There is a network connection problem. 3) The essential services are not started.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book • • • Page 146 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM – Cause: Firefox may have a memory leak after running for a long time. The memory leak-related issues may cause Firefox to function improperly. – Resolution: Restart the Firefox Web browser and log into Power Center again. Problem 8: Cannot see the Power/Temperature data in the Dashboard tab. – Cause: You may have changed the settings of the Power/Temperature sampling intervals.
OpenManagePowerCenter_User_Guide.book Page 147 Friday, March 2, 2012 10:33 AM Center database service will be forced to stop when other Power Center services are not yet stopped yet. In this case, the database connection sessions that cannot be closed by other Power Center services will be closed by the Power Center database service, and this error is generated.
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