Installation Manual

288 Power Monitoring and Management
Power Inventory, Power Budgeting, and Capping
From a usage perspective, you may have a limited amount of cooling at the
rack level. With a user-defined power cap, you can allocate power as needed
to meet your performance requirements.
The iDRAC6 monitors power consumption and dynamically throttles
processors to meet your defined power cap level, which maximizes
performance while meeting your power requirements.
Power Monitoring
The iDRAC6 monitors the power consumption in PowerEdge servers
continuously. iDRAC6 calculates the following power values and provides the
information
through its Web-based interface or RACADM CLI :
• Cumulative power
• Average, minimum, and maximum power
• Power headroom values
• Power consumption (also shown in graphs in the Web-based interface)
Configuring and Managing Power
You can use the iDRAC6 Web-based interface and RACADM command line
interface (CLI) to manage and configure power controls on the PowerEdge
system. Specifically, you can:
• View the power status of the server
• Execute power control operations on the server (for example, power on,
power off, system reset, power cycle)
• View power budget information for the server and the installed power
supply units, such as, the minimum and maximum potential power
consumption
• View and configure power budget threshold for the server