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Threshold Values for Power Monitoring
Power consumption is very specific to the hardware being used. A critical
consumption on one system may be well within the bounds on another
system. For convenience, rules have been defined to trigger alerting on the
power metrics, but due to this tight coupling to the hardware, you must
define proper thresholds specific to the hardware being monitored in order to
see any of these rules trigger as the default settings are set well above any real
hardware values.
Managing Power Monitoring
To work with power consumption monitoring, enable the power monitoring
policy, see "Enabling Monitor Policies" on page 141.
After you have confirmed that the power monitoring is activated, you can
monitor power consumption for a device using the available power
consumption metrics. You can do any of the following:
• View real time data, see "Managing Power Monitoring Metrics" on
page 124.
• View historical data, click Actions  Monitor  Historical and select the
device.
• View reports for various power consumption metrics, see the "Reporting"
on page 185 chapter.
You can modify rules and actions for the power consumption monitoring
metrics, see "Modifying Metrics" on page 143.
Agentless Text Metrics
Dell Power - Energy Consumption
Start Time
Select to view text data for energy
consumption start time.
Table 10-2. Metrics for Power Monitoring
Metric Description
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