Dell™ OpenManage Power Center Frequently Asked Questions
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Dell OpenManage Power Center - Frequently Asked Questions Contents Licensing, Installation and Configuration ...................................................................... 4 Discovery and Structuring of Devices into Logical and Physical Groups .................................. 4 Monitoring and Power Policy ..................................................................................... 5 Event Management .........................................................................................
Dell OpenManage Power Center - Frequently Asked Questions Licensing, Installation and Configuration 1. What licensing options are available with Power Center? Power Center offers two licensing options: Trial License. The trial license is valid for 60 days and is installed with Power Center. This allows you to use all of Power Center’s features. However, you must import the perpetual license within 60 days in order to continue using Power Center.
Dell OpenManage Power Center - Frequently Asked Questions Monitoring and Power Policy 1. Why would I want to use the power policy to cap the power consumption? Power capping is a powerful function for controlling the power consumption. The power consumption might vary from time to time depending on the computational work load.
Dell OpenManage Power Center - Frequently Asked Questions capping’s responsive distribution of power helps to minimize the negative impact to performance. 6. How is the power policy or capping working when I have a server controlled by multiple policies? When a server is controlled by multiple polices, the server will have overlap power capping. While a server can only be in one place and belong to one physical group, it can belong to multiple logical groups.
Dell OpenManage Power Center - Frequently Asked Questions General 1. How does Power Center behave on Dell 12G systems versus Dell 11G systems? On Dell 11G servers, Power Center provides the power monitoring capability. On Dell 12G servers, it depend on the version of the iDRAC on the servers. On Dell 12G servers with iDRAC Enterprise, Power Center provides the power monitoring and capping capability. On Dell 12G servers with iDRAC Express, Power Center provides only the power monitoring capability.
