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Dell OpenManage Power Center Version 1.0 User's Manual

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1. Stop the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service Restore C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata pg_hba conf file to the original value see the following commands By default pgdata of Power Center is installed at C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata Configuring Power Center 135 Current value IPv4 local connections host ar all 127 0 0 1 32 trust Replace to original value IPv4 local connections host all all 127 0 0 1 32 password 9 Ifyou 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 Change Remote Database Settings Power Center supports switching from a remote database to the other remote database however the other remote database must have already been used by Power Center before switching to it Step 1 Change database settings in the Power Center management console 1 Go to Settings Database and click Edit 2 Enter the following database information PostgreSql Host Host name or IP address default localhost PostgreSql Port PostgreSq port number default 6443 User Name PostgreSq database user name Password PostgreSq database user password 3 Click Apply 4 Stop all Power Center services on the Power Center server Step 2 Enable remote database to accept
2. Thresholds Power thresholds and temperature thresholds For more information on dashboards power details temperature details policies and thresholds see the Power Monitoring and Temperature Monitoring chapters Logical Groups 71 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 You can monitor power at different device group levels you can configure power monitoring settings to meet your monitoring needs and you can also print the power status graph Power Monitoring Level Power Center provides power monitoring at the following levels For physical groups and logical groups Individual device Rack Aisle Room Data center For logical groups only User defined logical group Power Monitoring Configuration You can configure power monitoring settings in Power Center including Thresholds Average maximum power for events Device and group range Monitor all or not Sampling interval 1 3 6 minutes Default units Watts or BTU per hour Energy consumption Power consumption and cost Power Monitoring 18 Thresholds is useful if you want to be notified when the power of the group device exceeds the thresholds Once the powe
3. aaa 72 Deleting Physical Groups 72 Viewing PhysicalGroups 72 9 LogicalGroups 74 CreatingaLogicalGroup 74 Contents Managing Logical Groups 74 AddingaLogicalGroup 2 74 Adding Devices or Groups to a Logical Group 75 Editing Logical Groups 76 Deleting Logical Groups 76 Viewing Logical Groups a 76 10 Power Monitoring aaau 18 Power Monitoring Level 78 Power Monitoring Configuration 78 Viewing Power Details 80 Viewing Energy Consumption 82 Monitoring PDU Power aaa 83 Monitoring UPS Power aaa 84 PowerDashboard 85 Printing Power Monitoring Dashboard Graph 87 11 Temperature Monitoring 88 Temperature Monitoring Level 88 Temperature Monitoring Configuration 88 Viewing Temperature Details 89 Monitoring Temperature of Chassis Blade Server 92 Contents Monitoring Temperature of Devices Groups 92 Temperature Dashboard aaa 92 Printing Temperature Monitoring Dashboard Graph 94 12 Power Policies 95 How Does a Dynamic Power Policy Work
4. Resolution 1 Check your network connection status make sure it is connected to the Power Center server 2 Check your user account status make sure it is not deleted by another user with higher privileges Problem 4 The network connection status is connected but you failed to connect to Dell iDRAC6 devices Dell PowerEdge Servers Cause Dell iDRAC6 devices are limited to three concurrent connection sessions you have reached the limitation of connection sessions There are various reasons that may cause the session to be occupied for a while until it is relinquished for example you used incorrect credential information to connect with Dell iDRAC6 devices for three times or more within a short period Troubleshooting 144 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 Resolution Make sure that 1 The Power Center server s IP address is registered on the device as the destination for the events 2 The network of the device and the Power Center server is connected and packets can be routed to each other 3 If the Windows SNMP Trap service is installed on the Power Center server t
5. Starting Services with a Normal Windows OS User Account To configure a normal Windows OS user account follow these steps 1 Stop all Power Center services Security 120 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 Grant Full Control permission of the following directories or files to user A Directory DelhOpenManagePowerCentenbin Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat DelhOpenManagePowerCentenextermalpgsglbin Dell OpenManagePowerCenter logs Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata File DelhOpenManagePowerCenterlconfluser contig xml Dell OpenManagePowerCenter conf app config xml Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat conf context xml Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat conf server xml Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat conf tomcat users xml Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat conf web xml Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external jre lib security krb5 conf Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external jre lib security login conf DelhOpenManagePowerCenterkeystore ssl Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata pg_hba conf Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata postgresql conf Delete all content under Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat work Update the Properties of the Po
6. OpenManagePowerCenter conf app config xml OpenManagePowerCenter external apache tomcat conf server xml Power Center Services Power Center includes the following services Installing and Launching 26 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 If Windows SNMP Trap service is not installed this service will automatically stop F NOTE If Windows SNMP Trap service is installed make sure it is not disabled otherwise Power Center cannot function properly Dell OpenManage Power Center Server The Power Center server core service It carries out all actions including communication with devices To stop or start a service select the appropriate service from the Windows Services list and select the action to perform Power Center uses Network Service account to start all the services You can change to a normal Windows OS user account for security purpose For more information on how to change the account see Starting Services with a Normal Windows OS User Account in the Security chapter Uninstalling Power Center F NOTE After unin
7. Dell PowerEdge M620 These devices show Monitor and Upgradable To upgrade the device so that its power consumption can be capped go to the Device List page and click Upgrade next to the device then follow the instructions on the pop up help page to upgrade the device power capability Once the upgrade is completed the power capability status changes to Monitor amp Capping within 24 hours Creating a Policy You can create static or dynamic policies for your device group You can create static power policies for a rack chassis or device and create dynamic power policies for any group device Power policies only apply to the groups devices that have Monitor amp Capping power capability You can create multiple policies on the same device group This is useful when you want to apply different policies at different time periods for the same device group To create a new policy 1 Go to Power Overview Physical Logical Groups page 2 Click the rack chassis device icon and go to the Policies tab 3 Click Create New Policy Power Policies 98 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 estim
8. Dell1 OpenManagePowerCenter keystore ssl keystorePass DCM10 pass clientAuth false sslProtocol TLS gt 3 Update the Keystore password Replace the value below in bold with the value in the server xml backup file lt Connector protocol org apache coyote httpll HttpllProtocol port 8643 minSpareThreads 5 maxSpareThreads 75 maxHttpHeaderSize 8192 enableLookups true disableUploadTimeout true Backup and Recovery 142 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 gt d For java security you must manually update the login config url 1 parameter with value file java home lib security login conf For example login config url 1 file java home lib security login conf e Refer to your operating system documentation for instructions on how to remove file privileges you need to remove the privileges that you have added for the files F NOTE Make sure the account that Power Center services is logged on with the Full Control privilege to the Power Center data files see Power Center Data section in this chapter Otherwise the recovery may fail For example if Power Center services are logged on wit
9. For a Power Center installation in CAProgram 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 apache tomcat conf server xml C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external jre lib security login conf C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external jre lib security krb5 conf C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external jre lib security java security C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter keystore ssl C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata Power Center Backup When you back up Power Center follow the steps below 1 Stop all Power Center services 2 Back up all Power Center data a Refer to your operating system documentation for instructions on how to change file privileges you need to add your OS user with the Read privilege for the files listed in the Power Center Data table You must add the Read privileges to all sub contents of the pgdata folder b Local Copy all these Power Center data files to your backup location Remote Copy all these Power Center data files to your backup location except the pgdata folder You must back up the database i e pgdata on the remote server following the PostgreSQL backup and recovery Web pa
10. at different device group levels The events you see at a device group level include all the events that occurred on the groups devices within this device group This page lists events for critical and warning severity levels from most recent to earlier You can click the arrow buttons lt gt to see the previous next page Event Logs page This page lists all the events at all severity levels Event Management 115 Go to the Event Logs page You can click the arrow buttons lt gt 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 Editing Events When you want to edit an event for example you want to put a note to describe why this event was triggered or the action that was taken you can add a comment to the event To add a comment to an event 1 Goto the Event Logs page 2 Click the icon in the Comments column Table 14 5 Event comments icon and description Icon Description E There is an existing comment You can click to add more comments L There is no comment You can click to add a comment 3 The Event Comment window opens Click Add Comment 4 Enter your comment in the Descriptions field and click A
11. 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 log The first audit log file name This file always logs the latest actions audit log The second audit log file name This is copied from audit log when it exceeds the file size limitation audit log 2 The third audit log file name This is copied from audit log when audit log exceeds the file size limitation Power Center keeps up to three audit log files When the three files exist and audit log exceeds the file size limitation audit log 1 overwrites audit log 2 and audit log overwrites audit log 1 Managing Certificates Power Center uses Keytool to generate a key pair a public key and an associated private key it wraps the public key into a self signed certificate during the installation Keytool is a key and certificate management utility from Java Runtime Environment it is located at lt InstallDir gt external jre bin keytool exe The private key and the self signed certificate are stored in the keystore file at lt InstallDir gt keystore ssl The self signed certificate expires three months after installation It is strongly recommended to update the private key and self signed certificate within three months You can manage Power Center certificates t
12. value according to the maximum and minimum temperature from the Temperature Details graph Temperature Dashboard The Dashboards page displays Power Center s overall status To view the dashboard 1 Go to Power Overview Physical Logical Groups 2 Click the group device icon and click Dashboards Temperature Monitoring 92 The dashboard graph displays TEMPERATURE DASHBOARD 35 30 18 14 Recorded 2012 02 28 14 47 00 20 For devices Excludes PDU and UPS The left box displays the average temperature status of the latest sampling interval The right box displays the level of this average temperature status by comparing it with the temperature thresholds you set in the Thresholds tab For groups The left box shows the aggregated temperature value of the latest sampling interval for the devices with Monitor power capability in the group The right box displays the level of this aggregated temperature value by comparing it with the temperature thresholds you set in the Thresholds tab F NOTE Aggregated temperature value is the temperature value calculated by the temperature data aggregation The calculation formula is case by case and depends on whether the data aggregation is based on time periods or groups The right box displays different colors indicating different severity levels Red color shows the temperature range that triggers a critical event O
13. 2 3 4 E Go to Group Management Physical Groups and click Select a Physical Group then click the icons to select a group Click Delete Select the groups checkboxes to delete them Click Apply NOTE If deleting the physical group affects the policy an event will be sent You can view it in the Event Logs page Viewing Physical Groups To view details of the physical group go to the Physical Groups page There are two scenarios for accessing the Physical Groups page Physical Groups 72 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 This page lists the detailed information of the content in this group device The Physical Groups page lists all the physical groups by name in alphabetical order A Z You can click a physical group s active link to view more details Group structure information Click the icons to view the group structure including Room Aisle Rack Chassis Group details Click the tabs to view the details Events Events in the group including Critical Warning events For more information on event severity see E
14. 96 Power Policy Capabilities 97 Upgrading Device Power Policy Capability 98 Creating a Policy 98 Viewing Policy Details 101 Policy Priority Levels 101 Policy Modes 102 Enabling Disabling Policy 102 Displaying Policies in the Power Details Graph 103 Updating a Policy 103 Deleting Policies 103 Filtering Policies 104 Emergency Power Reduction 104 Policy Related Events 105 13 Comparing aaa 106 Changing the Time Period 106 Contents Adding a Device or Group 107 Removing Changing Device or Group 107 Printing the Comparison Result 108 14 Event Management 109 Pre defined Events 109 Custom Events 112 Supported PDU UPS Events 114 Event Severity Levels SS 115 ViewingEvents 115 Sorting Events 116 EditingEvents 116 DeletingEvents 116 FilteringEvents 117 Filtering Events by Group Device 118 Sending Test Events from an IPMI Device 118 15 SecU rity cocci bas cay asas a s EG 120 S
15. 99 E K NOTE All devices are displayed on this page but you only can configure priority for the devices that have Monitor amp 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 For a static policy Power Center uses the same percentage of the Upper Bound value as the power cap for each device by default You can enter a different value Power Cap Value or Percentage of Capability and click Next NOTE If the sum of the entered device power cap is higher than the power cap value set in the previous step Power Center will change the Power Cap Value and display a message prompt Enter a policy schedule that includes Time Stamp Time of the day Always The policy is in effect all the time Range Enter the start time and end time of the day for the policy to take effect You can enter any time between 00 00 and 23 59 If you have entered a start time that is later than the end time for example 23 00 07 00 the effective timespan will be 23 00 of the current day to 07 00 of the next day Recurrence Pattern Day of the week Always The policy is in effect from Monday to Sunday Day of the week Select the days of the week for the policy to tak
16. Domain Environment in this chapter Windows NT LAN Manager NTLM Authentication Limitation Power Center supports Kerberos SSO for Windows domain user authentication To enable this feature Power Center is configured to support the Windows integrated authentication option which includes two authentication mechanisms Kerberos and NTLM NTLM is not supported in Power Center If the client s Web browser uses NTLM to authenticate domain users for Power Center there are some limitations Access Control 38 What s the limitation The Web browser displays a message box requiring a Windows user name and password Connecting to server1 east dcm dell com wee BR Password Ce Remember my password ET es Ifyou 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 Ifyou press Cancel there is an HTTP Status 401 failure and you cannot log into Power Center When does this occur When one of the following elements of Kerberos SSO is not correctly configured Power Center server Web browser or AD domain controller configuration How to solve Correctly configure your Power Center server AD controller and Web browser for Kerberos SSO For more information on how to configure see the section above and your Web browser Help Multiple User Login Power Center su
17. Page Privilege and Page Status Settings gt User Accounts Settings gt Licensing Event Logs Fully functional 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 Fully functional For users with the Manage License privilege Partially functional Users without the Manage License privilege only can view the license information Not functional NA Fully functional For users with the Manage Event and View Device Group privileges Partially functional Users with the View Device Group privilege only can view the events on this page Not functional NA Global Configuration The Global Configuration privilege enables Changing the Power Center global configuration For example you can configure the sampling interval or database settings What happens without this privilege You only can view part of the Settings page you cannot make any changes There is no Edit option Access Control 46 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 Manage Role User The Manage Role User privilege enables Creating role Deleting role Upda
18. 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 For devices groups Excludes PDU and UPS by default the Power Details graph displays the power details for the previous hour RACK EVENTS DASHBOARD W AW Anane TEMPERATURE DETAILS POLICIES THRESHOLDS POWER DETAILS gt Print Zoom 15 Mn 1H 1D 1w 1M 3M 1Y 14 30 14 36 14 42 02 28 2012 14 06 02 28 2012 15 06 lt lt Average om Maximum mom Minimum Critical Warning RACK CAPACITY AND CONSUMPTION Power Consumption mo Power Monitoring 80 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 Time Window and Interval Time Window Description Interval 15Min 15 minutes minute 1H 1 hour 3 minutes 1D 1 day 1 hour 1W 1 week 6 hours 1M 1 month 1 day 3M 3 months 1 week 1Y l year 2 weeks F 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 If you change the sampling interval to 3 minutes the interval of 15Min time window is 3 minutes If you change the sampling interval to 6 minutes the interval of 15Min time window is 3 minutes and the interval of 1H time window is 6 minut
19. Power Reduction The Emergency Power Reductions window opens 2 Inthe Remove column select the devices groups from which you want to cancel emergency power reduction You can select multiple devices groups 3 Click Apply The In EPR text of the device group disappears in the Power Overview and Group Management pages The Emergency Power Reduction button disappears when you have removed all devices groups from the Emergency Power Reductions window Policy Related Events When a device group that is configured with a policy has a group structure change for example a device or group is deleted moved or added a Warning event is sent For more information on policy related events see Pre defined Events in the Event Management chapter Power Policies 105 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 The power and temperature information that you can compare includes Power consumption Average maximum minimum and peak time power consumption Temperature Average maximum and minimum temperature Energy Total energy consumption a
20. You can add up to three SNMP Trap receivers After you have applied the settings you can update the settings or run a test for the settings To update the settings Configuring Power Center 129 Click Edit 2 Enter information for fields Destination IP Host Port or Community Name F 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 When it is empty the SNMP trap message sent by Power Center will not contain a community name 3 Click Apply To run a test for the settings 1 Click Run Test 2 Either a Success or Failed message appears in this section Database Policy Settings These settings are used to configure the database maintenance policy Power Center stores the monitoring data of your data center in the database file Power center uses compressed power temperature data to optimize for higher query performance and smallest database size Power Center stores both power temperature compressed data and non compressed data in the database Data Compression will aggregate and save the monitoring data using a bigger granularity hourly or daily but not the original granularity decided by the Sampling Interval Data Compression helps to improve the efficiency of data queries Power Center
21. a remote connection By default the Power Center database only accepts local host connection requests If you change the Power Center database to remote Power Center database on another server the Power Center service will not start Use the following example for stopping and restarting the Power Center services Configuring Power Center 136 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 2 Stop the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service Add your OS user with Read Write permission to C Program Files DelhOpenManagePowerCenterpgdatalpostgresgl conf and C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata pg_hba cont Refer to your operating system documentation for instructions on how to change file privileges Open C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata postgresql conf with a text editor and update the following Original value listen_addresses localhost this means that the database services will only serve connection requests from a local host New value listen addresses this means that the database services will serve connection requests from all hosts Open C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata pg_hba conf with a text editor and add the following Original value O
22. and end date You can either manually enter the dates following this format lt YYYY MM DD gt or select the dates from the calendar Only events from 00 00 00 of start date to 00 00 00 of the next day after the end date are displayed For example you entered the filtering option 2012 01 01 as both start date and end date all events from 00 00 00 of 2012 01 01 to 00 00 00 of 2012 01 02 are displayed Severity Select the event severity level You can select multiple severity levels Event Management 117 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 To filter events by a group or device 1 Click a filtering option in the left pane Physical Group Logical Group or All Devices to display a specific filtering option window In the filtering option window use the displayed information to select the filtering options You can select one group or device Physical Group a The filtering option window lists the physical groups as active links Click the active link to expand the groups to display all groups that are part of that physical group b Click a physical group s active link and
23. chapter or you can click Next to skip this step Realm Name Enter the Realm name domain name of KDC server KDC Server Enter the address of KDC server it can be either an IP address or a server name Kerberos Pre authentication User Name Enter the user name for the Kerberos pre authentication account Installing and Launching 25 F 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 Installed Directories By default the Power Center package installs to C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter F NOTE You cannot install Power Center to the root folders of Windows volume You must select a none root folder or another volume to install The Power Center package includes the following folders Table 3 1 Installed Directories Directory Description bin Power Center binaries conf Power Center configuration files external Other applications installed by Power Center Logs Power Center event logs Pgdata default Database files To protect your data the following files are accessible only to Network Service or Administrator users
24. devices into the groups through the management console Creating Physical Group To create a physical group 1 Go to Group Management Physical Groups and click Select a Physical Group Click Add New Enter a Name and Description for the data center You can create multiple groups at once if you click Add New lt Entity Name in the Tasks section Click Duplicate Group and enter the Number of the groups to create Power Center automatically names the groups by adding a number starting from 1 to it For example if you enter the name GroupA and number 10 Power Center creates ten groups named GroupAl GroupA2 GroupA10 Physical Groups 67 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 Click the room icon to open the Aisle Contents page Click Add New Aisle enter the Name and Description and click Apply Click the aisle icon to open the Rack Contents page Click Add New Rack enter the Name Description Capacity rack size and Total Power Capacity total rack power capacity and click Apply F NOTE Rack power capacity is a field that indicates the physical power limitation in a rack it is determined by the PDU capacity in power
25. hostname Serial Number or Device serial number or service tag Service Tag Service Tag The service tag for Dell chassis and servers is displayed Serial Number The serial number for Dell PDU and UPS is displayed NA For all other devices NA is displayed Device Management 58 Table 6 1 Device Information Field Description Device Type Device Model Protocol Power Capability Group Time of Discovery Description Size of Device Faceplate Power De rated Power Device type including Server PDU UPS Chassis Unsupported Device model for example PowerEdge M610 The protocol used for communication including IPMI e SNMPvlv2c or SNMPv3 e WS MAN The power monitoring and capping capability or if the device can be upgraded including Unknown None Monitor Monitor amp Capping Monitor and Upgradable The devices physical group The time when the device was discovered Device description The physical size of device in rack units U Device faceplate power Device de rated power Device Management 59 F 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 Netwo
26. is 6443 If another database is already using the default port enter a different port Installing and Launching 24 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 In the OpenManage Power Center Setting screen continue to configure the Power Center super user account also called installation account in the User Accounts page settings this account is used for logging into the Power Center management console User Name Enter a name for the super user or leave the default name admin User Name rules a Must be unique for each Power Center user b Can be up to 20 uppercase or lowercase printable characters except lt gt c Case insensitive User Password Create the user password for the super user account F NOTE The password must be a minimum of 8 characters in length with characters from at least three of the following categories uppercase lowercase numeric non alphanumeric and can include spaces Verify password Enter the password again to confirm Click Next In the Power Center Setting screen continue to configure the Kerberos settings These options are optional you can enable the option and configure the following settings to support SSO For more information on SSO see Single Sign on in the Access Control
27. new HTTPS port takes effect F NOTE Power Center only supports screen resolutions of 1024 768 pixels or higher Make sure you have correctly set the screen resolution on your system before launching the Power Center management console Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer If the Power Center server uses Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2008 OS and the Web browser is Internet Explorer 8 or version above by default the system has the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration ESC feature enabled To make sure Power Center functions properly in Internet Explorer you must either disable this feature or configure Internet Explorer to trust the Power Center site links To disable this feature in Windows 2008 1 Go to Control Panel System and Security Administrative Tools gt Server Manager 2 In the Server Summary Security Information section click Configure TE ESC 3 The Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration window opens set enhanced security configuration to Off for both administrators and users Installing and Launching 28 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 gt Internet Options Security 2 Cl
28. only applicable to a device that has a policy applied When you see such an event check the policy on the device F NOTE To receive events from a PDU or UPS you must subscribe to the event from the console of that PDU UPS F NOTE For the Power Center supported IPMI events IPMI Power Unit IPMI Power Supply IPMI Processor Temperature Trip IPMI Fan Dell PowerEdge tower servers and rack servers support all these IPMI events and Dell PowerEdge blade servers only support IPMI Processor Temperature Trip events F NOTE Power Center only supports IPMI trap format for Dell iDRAC devices To receive events from a Dell iDRAC device make sure the alert function is enabled and the IPMI trap format is selected for allthe Power Center supported events IPMI Power Unit IPMI Power Supply IPMI Processor Temperature Trip IPMI Fan in the iDRAC management console For example in the Dell iDRAC7 management console you must select IPMI trap for all PWR PSU CPU Fan related alerts For more information on how to use the Dell iDRAC management console see Dell iDRAC Help Custom Events A custom event is triggered when the custom condition threshold is reached Power Center provides the following custom events Table 14 2 Custom Events Type Description Severity Level Average Power Average power consumption is greater than Critical or the average value you set in the Thresholds Warning depends on the threshold type Event Ma
29. receive events indicating an abnormal power temperature situation in the data center Power Center detects these types of events Pre defined events Custom events The internal event listening port of Power Center is 6553 Power Center uses this port to receive events from Power Center internal If an application uses port 6553 make sure to change it and reserve this port for Power Center The default external event listening port is 162 Power Center uses this port to receive events from the external devices If the SNMP Trap service exists and uses port 162 Power Center automatically uses port 1162 to receive the external events forwarded by the SNMP Trap service Pre defined Events A pre defined event is an event that Power Center defines based on system conditions Power Center defines the following events A Z at different severity levels Table 14 1 Pre defined Events Type Description Severity Level Blades Change In Some blades in a chassis are changed you Informative Chassis must manually re discover the chassis NOTE Power Center detects the chassis change once every 15 minutes Cannot Register The device cannot register the device events Warning Event on Device to the Power Center server automatically Event Management 109 Table 14 1 Pre defined Events Type Description Severity Level Communication Power Center lost communication with the Warning with Chassis chassis Faile
30. slots are not available adding the device fails and another slot will need to be selected NOTE You cannot add or remove devices in a chassis however you can rediscover the devices in a chassis For more information on how to rediscover devices see Rediscovering Devices in a Chassis in the Device Discovery chapter Add devices to a rack in a batch Click Devices in Rack Batch Add In the Batch Add Devices to Rack window the devices that are not defined to any physical group are shown You can also use the following options to display the device information to meet your needs Show additional columns By default the page displays three columns of the device information Select Name Status You can click Show Additional Columns to display all columns of the device information Filter If you need to show only specific devices from a long list of the devices you can use filtering options to filter the devices Click Select next to the device that you want to add and then select the slot for device by one of the following Slot number You can specify a slot number for the device Power Center will add the device to this slot and the slots above it according to the device size Auto If you select Auto Power Center will automatically assign slots for selected devices according to the device size and available slots All selected devices are added to the rack Physical Groups 69 d Repeat the previous step
31. to select more devices and the corresponding slots You can select multiple devices from different pages e Click Apply F 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 b In the Associate a Device with a Rack window select the devices to add c Click Apply F NOTE 0nly PDU or UPS can be associated to the physical group 5 The physical group is created and devices are added associated to the group F NOTE One device can only exist in one physical location F NOTE When adding Dell Chassis Management Controller CMC to a physical group if a blade server is found you must manually update the credential of the blade server Once you supply Power Center with the correct credential Power Center updates its status from lost connection to connected Editing Devices in a Physical Group After adding or associating devices you can edit the device information To edit a device use one of the following Click Edit Tasks Update Slots to change the slot for the device Click Edit Tasks Move to move the device to other data center Click Edit Tasks Edit to edit the device Removing Devices from a Physical Group To remove a device from the group 1 Click Remove 2 Select the devices checkboxes to remove them 3 C
32. under the graph 4 Click Select Power Policy and select a policy The policy implementation status is displayed in the Power Details graph To hide a policy Click Power Policy again Updating a Policy To update a policy 1 Goto the Policies page or the Policies tab in the Power Overview page 2 Click Edit next to the selected policy 3 The Edit Policy window opens Update the policy details See Creating a Policy in this chapter 4 Click Apply The policy is updated and takes effect immediately Deleting Policies To delete policies 1 Go to the Policies page or the Policies tab in the Power Overview page 2 Click Delete 3 Select the policies checkboxes to delete them Power Policies 103 4 Click Apply Filtering Policies You can apply a filter to show only specific policies To filter policies 1 2 3 Go to the Policies page Click Filter 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 In the filtering option window use the displayed information to select the filtering options You can use one or more options to filter policies Policy Type Select the static power policy or dynamic power policy You can select multiple policy types Power Cap Define the power cap range for the device group by setting the minimum and maximum power cap values Policy Sta
33. Critical event automatically becomes Informative When the average temperature returns to 35 C the Warning event automatically becomes Informative When the following change occurs the corresponding Critical event becomes an Informative event A device group is removed from Power Center group Event Management 113 An event condition is removed from Power Center for example the Threshold settings Anevent 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 For more information on the thresholds see Power Monitoring Configuration in the Power Monitoring chapter and Temperature Monitoring Configuration in the Temperature Monitoring chapter Supported PDU UPS Events Power Center supports different events for different PDU and UPS The following table lists the events that were validated by Power Center There may be other events Table 14 3 Supported PDU UPS Events PDU UPS Model Supported Events Dell UPS UPS Low Battery UPS Bad Input APC UPS UPS Low Battery UPS Shutdown UPS On Bypass Eaton UPS UPS Low Battery UPS Bad Input UPS Bad Battery Emerson UPS UPS Low Battery Dell PDU PDU Low Load PDU High Load PDU Overload PDU Outlet Low Load PDU Outlet High Load PDU Outlet Overload PDU Outlet On PDU Outlet Off NOTE Events marked with are only suppor
34. Dell OpenManage Power Center Version 1 0 User Guide Notes Cautions and Warnings F NOTE A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make better use of your computer AN CAUTION A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss of data if instructions are not followed A WARNING A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage personal injury or death Information in this document is subject to change without notice 2012 Dell Inc All rights reserved Reproduction of these materials in any manner whatsoever without the written permission of Dell Inc is strictly forbidden Trademarks used in this text Dell the DELL logo Dell Precision OptiPlex Latitude PowerEdge PowerVault PowerConnect 5 OpenManage KACETM FlexAddress and Vostro are trademarks of Dell Inc Intel Pentium Xeon Core and Celeron are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U S and other countries AMD the AMD logo and combinations thereof are registered trademarks and AMD Opteron AMD Phenom and AMD Sempron are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices Inc Microsoft Windows Windows Server MS DOS and Windows Vista are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and or other countries Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Enterprise Linux are registered trademarks of Red Hat Inc in the United States and or other co
35. Device Group privilege Partially functional NA Not functional For users without the Manage Device Group privilege Fully functional For users with the Device Discovery privilege Partially functional NA Not functional For users without the Device Discovery privilege Access Control 44 Table 4 1 Pages and Privileges Page Privilege and Page Status Device List Policies Compare Settings gt Settings 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 Fully functional For users with the View Device Group and Manage Policy privileges Partially functional NA Not functional Users without the View Device Group and Manage Policy privileges will see a blank page Fully functional For users with the View Device Group privilege Partially functional NA Not functional For users without the View Device Group privilege Fully functional For users with the Global Configuration privilege Partially functional Users without the Global Configuration privilege can only view part of the settings on this page Not functional NA Access Control 45 Table 4 1 Pages and Privileges
36. Group aa aaa 47 Manage Policy 48 ManageEvent 48 Manage License 49 Viewing Current User Information 49 Licensing 00 2 49 ImportingLicense 49 Viewing License 50 5 Device Discovery aaa 51 Supported Devices and Unsupported Devices 51 Adding a Device fromthe Network 52 Adding a Device Manually 54 Rediscovering DevicesinaChassis 55 Protocol Profile 2 56 6 Device Management 58 Viewing Devices 58 EditingDevices 60 Contents Editing Protocol SS 61 Deleting Devices 61 Filtering Devices 62 Sorting Devices 63 7 Group Management 64 Mapping Group Structure Information 64 Finding a Group or Device 65 8 Physical Groups aaa aaa 67 Data Center Physical Group 67 Creating Physical Group 67 Managing Physical Groups 68 Adding Devices to a Physical Group 68 Editing Devices in a Physical Group 70 Removing Devices froma Physical Group 70 Moving DevicesinaPhysicalGroup 71 Moving a Physical Group aaa 71 Editing Physical Groups
37. Model Select the device type or device model Device Model is the specific model information of a device type For example PowerEdge M610 All the models that currently exist in the Device List page are shown If you selected both Device Type and Device Model make sure the device type matches the device model Otherwise no result is shown Device Management 62 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 The Device List page displays the filtered devices Sorting Devices By default in the Device List pages the devices are listed by Name in alphabetical order A Z To sort the list click the Up or Down symbol next to the field to list the devices in ascending or descending order The symbol of the current sorting field is displayed in orange Device Management 63 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
38. Monitoring Settings in the Configuring chapter For racks you can also click Power Consumption to display PDU power consumption for all rack PDUS You can also click Power Policies to change a power policy F NOTE The Power Policies button is only enabled if you have configured a power policy in the Policies page For more information on how to configure a power policy see the Power Policies chapter You can view the following power details of the PDU devices For more information on supported PDU devices see System Requirements in the Overview chapter PDU device information Including PDU name model and IP address PDU outlet information Including outlet number power W voltage V amps A and time of the information recorded following this format lt YYYY MM DD HH MM SS gt The table lists the information for each outlet and the total power consumption for all outlets F NOTE For PDU outlet information Power Center only supports the Dell Managed Rack PDU 6605 Viewing Energy Consumption The Power Details page provides the following energy consumption information IT Equipment Energy The total energy consumption and cost for all managed devices in the selected device group Power Monitoring 82 Ed EYES ES ES NOTE Power Center can read the power consumption of a device when it is at SO On state For devices in S4 S5 state Power Center uses a fixed value 30W to cal
39. OTE 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 Editing Protocol You can edit the communication protocol of the devices listed in the Device List page To edit a protocol 1 Go to the Device List page 2 Click the device protocol link that you want to edit in the Protocol column 3 The Edit Protocol Information window opens Enter the protocol details You must enter credential information for the protocol For more information on the protocol information see Protocol Profile in this chapter F NOTE 1 If you select the Clear checkbox next to a field the current value of this field is cleared 2 If you do not select the Clear checkbox and leave the field empty the value remains unchanged 4 Click Apply Deleting Devices If you want to manually remove a duplicated device or you do not want to manage a device in Power Center you can delete the device from the Device List page To delete a single device or multiple devices 1 Go to the Device List page 2 Click Delete Tasks Delete 3 Select the devices checkboxes to delete them 4 Click Ap
40. Overview chapter Follow these steps to install Power Center 1 Double click the file OpenManagePowerCenter exe 2 In the installation wizard home page click Next 3 In the License Agreement screen read the license agreement and select I accept Click Next 4 Inthe License page read the license message Click Next 5 In the Destination Folder screen either leave the default installation path or browse to your desired installation path Click Next F NOTE The installation path only supports ANSI characters English characters numbers and simple symbols Do not use an installation path with non ANSI characters 6 Inthe OpenManage Power Center Setting screen configure the following HTTPS settings HTTPS Port By default Power Center uses port 8643 for HTTPS communication To select a different port enter the new port number The port number must be a number between 2000 to 9000 Keystore Password Enter a keystore password The password will be used to access the keystore file After entering the password in the Verify Password field enter again to confirm Installing and Launching 23 F NOTE The password must be more than 5 characters and cannot contain non ANSI characters and double quotes e 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 ma
41. You can create edit delete sort or enable disable the policies on this page These two pages display policy details Enabled The policy is enabled or disabled Active The policy is in use or not in use Entity Name Name of the entity Policy Name Name of the policy Type Static power policy or dynamic power policy Power Cap Power cap for the entity Date Range Start date and end date for the policy to take effect Time Range Time of the day for the policy to take effect Days Day of the week for the policy to take effect Policy Priority Levels When you create or update a policy you can select different priority levels for each device group For example you can set priority levels based on the service level agreements associated with workloads running on a device group Power Center tends to reserve more power to the devices groups with higher priority when the power cap for devices groups is not fully utilized Power Policies 101 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 For example you created Policyl for device lt A B C gt and Policy2 for device lt B C D gt a
42. abase according to your setting in Purge Data Older Than immediately Once completed you will see the informative event Database Maintenance Success in the Event Logs page When are the settings effective Immediately Installation Settings During Power Center installation you set the communication settings between the Power Center server and the database KDC server and Kerberos pre authentication After installation you can change these settings in the Settings page Database settings Kerberos Realm settings e Power Center Server s Domain Account for Kerberos SSO Database Settings To change the database connection information you can configure the database settings in the Settings page Power Center supports database settings changes for local and remote systems Change local database settings If you install Power Center using local database settings you can change the settings except PostgreSQL Host in the Settings page after the installation Power Center does not support switching from local database to the remote database Change remote database settings If you install Power Center using the remote database setting you can change all the settings in the Settings page after the installation Configuring Power Center 132 Before changing the database settings the system must meet the following requirements The correct connection information Server Name Database Port Database Us
43. act the system performance and footprint significantly including network bandwidth consumption database size and trend graph display latency Configuring PowerCenter 126 The default power and temperature intervals in Power Center are 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 F NOTE The device number only counts the supported devices Unsupported devices are not counted When are the settings effective Monitor all devices and groups Immediately Power lemperature sampling interval Every 30 minutes in the hour For example 08 00 08 30 09 00 etc Default Units Settings These settings are used to convert the power temperature value into your selected units of measurement and display the energy consumption cost in your selected currency Power Units Select power unit this unit is used to display the power details Power Center automatically converts the power values according to the selected unit Temperature Units Select temperature unit this unit is used to display the temperature details Power Center automatically converts the temperature values according to the selected unit Currency Select currency this unit is used to display the energy consumption cost After you change t
44. ad is low enabling a reduction of power use for your data center You can set up a policy to increase the rack density For example you currently have ten devices in rack A 01 that is monitored by Power Center By monitoring the power consumption from the Power Details page you can estimate how many devices you can add to rack A 01 You can set up a policy to cap the total power consumption of rack A_01 after you added the devices Power Center supports two policy types Static power policy The power cap for each device is defined by you and will not be changed unless you redefine it A static power policy enables you to set a power cap for each device in the group You can create a static power policy for a rack chassis or device Dynamic power policy The power cap for each device is dynamically allocated by Power Center when necessary based on the power consumption information and other power information on each device Power Center evaluates power consumption for each device in every monitoring cycle to decide the necessity of changing the power cap for each device A dynamic power policy enables you to allocate the power dynamically for each device in the group while maintaining the power cap for the group A dynamic power policy has less performance impact to a device group compared with a static power policy You can create a dynamic power policy for a logical group data center room aisle rack or chassis Power Policie
45. ard Enterprise Small Business Server R2 x86 x64 Microsoft Windows 2008 Standard Enterprise Datacenter x86 x64 Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Vista x86 x64 Power Center supports the following Web browsers Mozilla Firefox 5 0 and 6 0 Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 0 8 0 and 9 0 Power Center is validated to work with the following virtualization environment VMware ESX 3 5 4 0 Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper V The Power Center installation includes the following major software tools Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment JRE 6 Apache Tomcat application server PostgreSQL 8 3 5 Overview 13 Hardware and Software Reguirements 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 The device must provide exclusive access for Power Center This is because the policies set on the devices from other management software will impact the Power Center power control function The Baseboard Management Controller BMC user through which Power Center communicates with devices must be a local user with Administrator role The device must be configured to allow th
46. ard H910P Dell Online Rack UPS 3750R OL K804N Dell UPS 2700 2300VA 120V 3U K802N APC e APC Online UPS w Web card SURTD3000XLI e APC Smart UPS 3000VA RM SUA3000RM2U e Smart UPS 5000VA RM DL5000RMT5U Eaton Eaton Line interactive UPS w Web card PW513011750 XL2U Emerson e Emerson Online UPS w Web card GXT2 2700RT208 Overview 15 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 After you log into Power Center the management console opens with a list of the available pages in the left navigation pane and the currently open page appearing in the right pane DOLL DEVICE LIST POLICES COMPARE SETTINGS EVENT LOGS OPENMANAGE POWER CENTER Getting Started GETTING STARTED admin Logout Help Welcome to Dell OpenManage Power Center the one stop console to monitor and manage data center power consumption Learn More Video Library Show Video Library Initial Steps Step 4 Global Configuration Step 2 Find devices Step 3 Create Group Step 4 Power overview CRITICAL EVENTS Severity v Entity There are no events at this time Total tems Found 0 WARNING EVENTS Configure required system settings Learn More Find network devices to manage Lear
47. at are part of that physical group b Click a physical group s active link and then click Select c The physical group is added to and displayed in the Compare page Logical Group a The group selection window lists the logical groups as active links b Click a logical group s active link c The logical group is added to and displayed in the Compare page All Devices a The group selection window displays a list of all devices b Click Select to add the device to the Compare page Return to the Compare page to perform a comparison Removing Changing Device or Group To remove a group or device from comparison click the X button of the selected device group To change a device group for comparison remove the device group first then add a different device group Comparing 107 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 For how to enable the Print Background option and other print settings see Printing Power Monitoring Dashboard Graph in the Power Monitoring chapter Comparing 108 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
48. ate a Power Cap value The Average Power Maximum Power Lower Bound and Upper Bound values only refer to the devices that have Monitor amp Capping power capability d Enter Power Cap Value or Percentage of Capability for the group device Power cap value Enter a value between the Lower Bound and Upper Bound The Lower Bound is the lowest minimum power consumption since the device group was either discovered added The Upper Bound is the maximum power consumption when the device group is in a maximum workload state You cannot enter a power cap value lower than the Lower Bound value This value is the total power consumption budget for devices that have Monitor amp Capping power capability Percentage of capability Enter a percentage 1 100 of the Upper Bound value to set the power cap The Power Cap Value and Percentage of Capability are related values The following formula describes the relationship between the two values Upper Bound Percentage of Capability Power Cap Value e Click Next NOTE The default power cap unit is Watts You can change this to a different unit For more information on how to change the default unit see Default Units Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter Allocate power for the group device For a dynamic policy the priority High Medium and Low for the Individual devices in the group can be changed as needed After selecting the priority click Next Power Policies
49. ating the Data Center Group Structure 20 Use Case 6 Monitoring Power Temperature Events of a Device or Group 21 Use Case 7 Creating Power Policies 21 Contents Use Case 8 Comparing Two or More Devices Groups 21 3 Installing and Launching 23 Installing PowerCenter 2 2 23 Installed Directories 26 Power Center Services 26 Uninstalling Power Center 21 Launching Power Center 28 Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer 28 4 Access Control aaa aaa 30 About Authentication 2 2 2 30 Logging in aaa aa 30 About Login 30 Log in with User Name and Password 31 Log in with Single Sign on SSO 35 Multiple User Login 2 20202 39 Loggingout 0 2 0 002 40 Managing UserRoles 40 Adding a Role 40 Updating a Role 41 Deleting a Role 41 Managing UserAccounts 41 AddingaUser 41 UpdatiigaUser __ 42 Contents Deleting a User 42 Managing Privileges 43 Global Configuration 0 46 Device Discovery 47 Manage Role User 47 View Device Group aa aaa aa 47 Manage Device
50. culate the power consumption Cooling Energy The estimated energy consumption and cost needed to cool the selected device group Cooling Energy IT Equipment Energy Cooling Multiplier You can configure the cooling multiplier in the Settings Energy Consumption page Energy Consumed Total The combined energy consumption and costs for the IT equipment and cooling energy The calculation formula is Cost IT Equipment Energy T1 Cooling Multiplier Flat Rate T1 IT Equipment Energy T2 Cooling Multiplier Flat Rate T2 IT Equipment Energy Tn Cooling Multiplier Flat Rate Tn NOTE TVT2 Tn is the time period in hours at a certain flat rate NOTE By default the Cost column displays 0 You must configure the cost rate to see the cost The rate is a global setting and can be set on the Settings Energy Consumption page NOTE The Energy Consumption section displays information based on the values configured in the Settings page This information should be used as an estimate only NOTE When a device or group is newly added or created in Power Center the power and energy consumption data displayed in the 1W and 1M time windows are different if the monitored time is less than 1 week and the data displayed in the 1H and 1D time windows are different if the monitored time is less than 1 day This occurs because Power Center uses different sampling intervals for different time windows For example a
51. d Step 2 Set up Service Principle Name SPN for Power Center service in AD Domain Controller 1 Log into the AD domain controller as an Administrator 2 Open a command console 3 Add two SPNs for Power Center use server FODN in one SPN and server NetBIOS name for the other SPN The user account associated with service SPN must be the Power Center server s domain account for Kerberos SSO configured during Power Center installation or in the Settings page For example setspn a HTTP serverl dcm dell com Tom NT setspn a HTTP serverl Tom Step 3 Configure Web browser You must configure your Web browser to support SSO For more information on how to configure this see your Web browser Help For a list of supported Web browsers see System Requirements in the Overview chapter F NOTE To correctly set up Kerberos SS0 1 The date and time on all involved computers must be consistent 2 DNS configuration must be correct To support SSO in Firefox you must send Kerberos credentials to the appropriate KDC To support SSO in Internet Explorer you must add the Power Center server as a local Intranet site The following is an example of configuration steps in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 1 Goto Internet Explorer 8 Internet Options Security Local Intranet and click Sites The Local Intranet window opens 2 Click Advanced add your Power Center site into Local Intranet For example serverl dcm dell co
52. d Communication Power Center restored communication with Informative with Chassis the chassis Restored Communication Power Center lost communication with the Warning With Node device Failed Communication Power Center restored communication with Informative With Node the device Restored Database The database maintenance completed Informative Maintenance successfully Success Hierarchy A group structure has affected a policy Warning Change Policy Internal Error Power Center internal error Warning IPMI Power Unit Events related to the server power unit Critical IPMI Power Events related to the server power supply Critical Supply IPMI Processor Events related to the server processor Critical Temperature Trip temperature trip IPMI Fan Events related to the server fan Critical IPMI Test An IPMI test event was received Informative Kerberos SSO SSO initialization failed because Kerberos Warning Initialization related configuration is incorrect Failed UPS Bad Battery Events related to battery failure in the UPS Critical UPS Low Battery Events related to low battery limits and Critical exceeded thresholds in the UPS Event Management 110 Table 14 1 Pre defined Events Type Description Severity Level UPS Bad Events related to temperature limits and Critical Temperature exceeded thresholds in the UPS UPS Bad Input Events related to power input failure in the Critical UPS UPS Bad Outp
53. d all the devices to the Power Center management console c Create a logical group that contains all these devices then create any power policy for this group d Remove all these devices from the Power Center management console After completing the steps a d Power Center will remove the policies first then remove the devices Problem 10 A PostgreSQL error log FATAL terminating connection due to administrator command occurred in the Windows event log Cause This is caused by Power Center server shutdown Normally the Power Center database service Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service will stop after other Power Center services but if the Power Center server has been shut down quickly the Power Troubleshooting 146 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 Since such an error is caused by Windows when it shuts down the services guickly Power Center will protect its important data through transaction therefore this kind of error does not impact Power Center Resolution No action is reguired Troubleshooting 147 www dell com support dell com
54. dening requirements for Windows 2003 of CIS benchmark For more information on CIS benchmark see http cisecurity org Security 122 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 Audit Log Details Action Tracked Information Successful failed user login logout Source IP Add remove emergency power reduction Impacted single device group Set update remove power policy Impacted single device group Start stop network discovery Network discovery information includes protocol profile IP range Change session timeout Old new value of timeout Change password for Power Center User name managed user Update role privilege Role name old new value of privileges Add remove user to role User name old new value of role name Add remove user User name The event logs are kept in the log file You can find the log file s in lt InstallDir gt OpenManagePowerCenter logs Audit log x Security 123 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
55. device is added into Power Center at 2011 10 15 09 00 and the current time is 2011 10 17 11 10 For the 1M time window sampling interval is 1 day the power and energy consumption is calculated from 2011 09 17 00 00 to 2011 10 17 00 00 For the 1W time window sampling time is 1 hour the power and energy consumption is calculated from 2011 10 10 11 00 to 2011 10 17 11 00 There is a 11 hour gap therefore the data displayed in the two time windows are not the same Monitoring PDU Power There are two scenarios for monitoring the PDU power Power Monitoring 83 Ifyou view the PDU Dashboard from the Dashboard page of a group The PDU Dashboard displays all PDU information in a table Ifyou view the PDU Dashboard from the Dashboard page of a PDU The PDU Dashboard displays the specific PDU information in a graph as follows EVENTS Seyi POWER DETAILS DASHBOARD gt Print PDU DASHBOARD PDU DATA Current 3 6A Voltage 233 V Recorded 2012 02 28 15 08 30 uma Recorded 2012 02 28 15 08 30 The left and right boxes show the instantaneous power value of the PDU The page also lists the PDU details read from the device It displays NA when the data is not provided on this PDU device Monitoring UPS Power There are two scenarios for monitoring the UPS power Ifyou view the UPS Dashboard from the Dashboard page of a group The UPS Dashboard displays all UPS information in a table Pow
56. distribution topology of the data center This field also sets the upper limit ceiling on the power policy that can be configured for the rack Click the rack icon to open the Devices in Rack page The following devices are not displayed in the Device List when you add the devices to a rack Blade servers Devices without device size information For example a PDU or UPS or a device that was manually added without the device information entered A device whose size exceeds the continuous available slots on the rack You can add a device to a rack using the following options Add a device to a rack a Click Devices in Rack Add to Rack Slot b Select a slot and click Add Devices to Selected Slot c The Add Device to Rack window displays any devices that are not defined to a physical group Use the following options to organize the device information Physical Groups 68 EG K 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 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 NOTE When the device size is greater than 1U and there are available slots on the top of the selected slot Power Center automatically adds the devices to the rack If
57. dresses with a comma For example 192 168 0 2 192 168 0 3 3 Specify a domain user for east dcm dell com as Power Center server s domain account for Kerberos SSO For example Jerry and Jerry s password Step 2 Set up SPN for Power Center service Access Control 37 Set up SPN for Power Center service in all involved AD domain controllers In the example three domains are involved dem 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 3 Add two SPNs for Power Center If it is on the Default Realm configured in Step 1 the user account associated with the service SPN must be the Power Center server s domain account for Kerberos SSO configured in Step 1 For example setspn a HTTP serverl east dcm dell com Jerry setspn a HTTP serverl Jerry If it is not on the Default Realm for example it is on dem dell com the user account associated with the service SPN must be a domain user account in the current domain For example Jack is a domain user in dem dell com Use the following commands to create service SPN on the dcem dell com domain controller setspn a HTTP serverl east dcm dell com Jack setspn a HTTP serverl Jack Step 3 Configure Web browser You must configure your Web browser to support SSO For more information on the configuration see step 3 of Single
58. e Administrator to use at least one of the cipher suite levels 0 3 and enable the IPMI over LAN setting The WS MAN user through which Power Center communicates with the chassis must be a local user with Administrator role The chassis must be configured to enable the Web Server service Supported Devices Power Center supports up to 2000 managed devices in one data center The following devices are validated and supported by Power Center Table 1 2 Supported Devices Category Supported Validated Model Platform Server Dell Dell PowerEdge R610 Rack Server Dell PowerEdge R620 Rack Server Dell PowerEdge R710 Rack Server Dell PowerEdge R720 Rack Server Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Server Dell PowerEdge T620 Tower Server Chassis Dell Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure Overview 14 Table 1 2 Supported Devices Category Supported Validated Model Platform PDU Dell Dell 6804 Metered PDU Dell 6607 Metered PDU Dell XX5T6 Metered PDU Dell 6803 Metered PDU Dell 6605 PDU APC e APC Metered Rack PDU AP78001 e APC Switched Rack PDU AP7900 e APC Switched Rack PDU AP7920 Eaton Eaton Monitored PDU PW312MI0UC07 Eaton Switched PDU PW105SW0U154 Emerson Emerson Liebert MPH MPH NCRO9NXXE30 ServerTech Serverlech Switched PDU CW 24V4J411 Serverlech Smart CDU OU CS 24V1 C20M UPS Dell Dell N313P Line interactive UPS w web c
59. e effect Recurrence Range Start and end dates Always The policy is in effect all year round Range Enter the start and end dates for the policy to take effect After you have defined the schedule click Next Review the policy summary information and click Apply The new policy is created and takes effect immediately NOTE The existing power cap value set in the policies including EPR still remain effective on the devices even if Power Center is corrupted this impacts the performance of the devices with policies applied You must back up Power Center Power Policies 100 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 Viewing Policy Details You can view policies from the following pages Policy page This page lists all policies You cannot create a policy on this page You can edit delete sort filter or enable disable the policies Power Overview Policy page This page lists policies for a specific entity To view the policies go to the Power Overview page select a physical group or logical group select an entity and click its Policies tab
60. e however you can configure roles which group several privileges together Power Center has the following pre defined privileges for each role Global configuration Device discovery Manage role user View device group Manage device group Manage policy Manage event Manage license Each page in the Power Center management console can function differently according to the user privilege Fully functional User can view and edit Partially functional User can partially view or edit Not functional User sees a blank page The following table lists the functional status of each page for the different user privileges Table 4 1 Pages and Privileges Page Privilege and Page Status Getting Started Fully functional All users Partially functional NA Not functional NA Access Control 43 Table 4 1 Pages and Privileges Page Privilege and Page Status Power Overview Group Management Discovery 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 Not functional For users without the View Device Group privilege Fully functional For users with the Manage
61. e Window Description Time Interval 1M 1 month 1 day 3M 3 months 1 week 1Y l year 2 weeks E 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 If you change the sampling interval to 3 minutes the interval of 15Min time window is 3 minutes If you change the sampling interval to 6 minutes the interval of 15Min time window is 3 minutes and the interval of 1H time window is 6 minutes For more information on how to configure the sampling interval see Monitoring Sampling Interval in the Configuring Power Center chapter View temperature details of a different time window Click the arrow buttons lt gt to see the details of previous next sampling time or click the arrow buttons lt lt gt gt to see the details of previous next page of results for the current time window You can click Average Maximum and Minimum to display the selected value Fore Average The average value from the previous time point to the current time point Maximum The maximum value from the previous time point to the current time point Minimum The minimum value from the previous time point to the current time point xample when you view temperature details in the 1H 1 hour window the maximum value at 15 00 shows 40 C and the time interval is 6 minutes this value represents that the max
62. ed to have power capping capability You can find this power policy capability status in the Power Capability column of the Device List page For servers that comply with Dell iDRAC7 when there is a power policy capability change due to a license change Power Center will change its information in the management console within 24 hours There are two scenarios Scenario 1 The license expires or is not imported In this case the following happens Ifa policy exists on the devices you will receive a Server Capabilities Changed event The Policy tab of the devices is set to disabled in the Power Overview page The power capability status of the devices is set to None in the Device List page You cannot edit the policy of this device from the Policies page you only can delete it Power Policies 97 Scenario 2 You try to import a license on a device without a license imported In this case the following happens Ifa 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 You can access it from the Policies page Upgrading Device Power Policy Capability The power policy capability of some devices can be upgraded to include capping of power consumption for example
63. er Monitoring 84 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 DASHBOARD DASHBOARD gt Print UPS DASHBOARD UPS DATA Charge Percentage 100 Elapsed Time 00 00 00 Remaining Time 01 18 00 Current Load 0 Output Status NORMAL Power Input ow Power Output ow Current Input DA Current Output 02A Voltage Input 217V Voltage Output 218V Frequency Input 50 Hz Recorded 2012 02 28 15 15 45 Frequency Output 50 Hz Recorded 2012 02 28 15 15 45 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 To view the dashboard 1 Go to Power Overview Physical Logical Groups 2 Click the group device icon and click Dashboards Power Monitoring 85 The dashboard graph displays POWER DASHBOARD kaa Recorded 2012 02 28 14 25 00 For devices Excludes PDU and UPS The left box displays the average power consumption of the latest sampling interval The right box displays the level of this average power consumption by comparing it with the power thresholds you set in the Thresholds tab For groups The left box shows the aggregated power value of t
64. er 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 If the new database is located on a remote server the database service on the remote server must be able to accept the remote database connection You can configure the following database settings in the Settings page PostgreSql Host PostgreSql Port User Name Password The following sections explain how to change the database settings for local and remote systems You must start or stop Power Center services when changing the database settings see your Windows OS service startup stop method to start or stop all Power Center services Change Local Database Settings To change database settings Step 1 Change the database settings in Power Center management console 1 Go to Settings Database and click Edit 2 Enter the following database information PostgreSql Port PostgreSql port number default 6443 User Name PostgreSql database user name Password PostgreSql database user password Click Apply F NOTE The new database must have been used by Power Center before 3 4 StopallPower Center services on the Power Center server Step 2 Change PostgreSOL database settings on the local server To change the database port see the following steps Configuring Power Center 133 Log into Windows with the Administrator privilege 2 Open a co
65. es For more information on how to configure the sampling interval see Monitoring Sampling Interval in the Configuring Power Center chapter View power details for a different time window Click the arrow buttons lt gt to see the details for the previous next sampling time or click the arrow buttons lt lt gt gt to see the details for the previous next page of results for the current time window You can click Average Maximum or Minimum to display the selected value Average The average value from the previous time point to the current time point Maximum The maximum value from the previous time point to the current time point Minimum The minimum value from the previous time point to the current time point Power Monitoring 81 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 F 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 You only need to pay attention when the Average power value exceeds the Power Cap value F NOTE You can set the time interval period from a time point to the next time point in the Settings page For more information on how to configure the interval see
66. etting on 8 15 the new setting will be effective from 9 00 Cooling Multiplier Immediately SNMP Traps Settings These settings are used to enable Power Center to send the following custom events to your preferred third party applications Configuring Power Center 128 Average Power Average Inlet Temperature Max Power Policy Cannot Be Maintained Policy Return To Normal Power Return To Normal Temperature Return To Normal 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 Import the MIB file to your application 1 Find the Power Center MIB file in lt InstallDir gt Conf DellOpenManagePowerCenter MIB mib 2 Import the MIB file to your application see your application Help Step 2 Configure the SNMP Trap Settings 1 Click Edit 2 Inthe Enabled field select Yes 3 Enter the following information Destination IP Host The IP address or host name of the destination device that you want to send events The maximum length for Destination IP Host is 255 characters Port The port number for the destination device to receive the event traps You can use any available port between 1 65535 Community Name A descriptive name of the community for example Public The maximum length for Community Name is 255 characters 4 Click Apply F NOTE
67. exported Measurement data of supported devices excludes groups There is no measurement data for unsupported devices Hourly data Hourly data is the data collected during the hour before timestamp 1 For example if the timestamp of the data is 14 00 00 the PowerAvg field displays the average power from 13 00 00 to 14 00 00 F NOTE Ifthere is no data available at the defined timestamp this field displays qw The csv file includes the following fields Deviceld Power Center internal device unique ID Devicclype Device type For example Server PDU UPS and CMC DeviceName Device name DeviceIP Device IP address Timestamp Data timestamp PowerAvg Average power value PowerMin Minimum power value PowerMax Maximum power value InletTemperatureAvg Average inlet temperature value InletTemperatureMin Minimum inlet temperature value Configuring Power Center 131 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 Once you click Purge Database Now Power Center starts to purge the dat
68. fox 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 Iemperature sampling intervals Before the new settings take effect the Power Temperature data may be temporarily unavailable Resolution Wait until the new settings take effect For more information on when the settings are effective see Monitoring Settings in the Configuring chapter Problem 9 Power Center is corrupted or uninstalled but the previously existing power policies including EPR on the devices are still effective Cause Even if Power Center is corrupted or uninstalled the Power Cap Values of the existing power policies including EPR on the devices still remain effective Resolution Check your data center power capacity to avoid tripping the breaker before performing the following steps 1 If you uninstall Power Center make sure you have removed all devices before uninstalling 2 If Power Center is corrupted do one of the following to remove the power policies 2 1 If the device number is small access the Dell iDRAC management console and manually remove the power policies 2 2 If the device number is large perform the following steps a Install Power Center b Ad
69. ge Power Center Database Server service If you can start this service all the settings in previous steps are correct To change the database user name or password perform the following steps 1 Log into Windows with the Administrator privilege 2 Stop the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service Configuring Power Center 134 3 Change the pg hba conf file By default pedata of Power Center is installed at C Program Files DelhOpenManagePowerCenterpgdata Original IPv4 local connections host all all 127 0 0 1 32 password New IPv4 local connections host all all 127 0 0 1 32 trust Start Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service To change the user name run the following commands The command below assumes Power Center is installed at C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter and NewName is the new user name C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external pgsql bin psql exe p 6443 U postgres d dcmapp c ALTER ROLE dcmdba RENAME TO NewName NOTE If you change the user name you must reset the password To change the password run the following commands The command below assumes Power Center is installed at C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter NewPassword is the new password C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external pgsql bin psql exe p 6443 U postgres d dcmapp c ALTER Role dcmdba PASSWORD NewPassword
70. ge enables Adding removing a policy Updating a policy Starting stopping Emergency Power Reduction on a device group F NOTE To manage a policy you must also have the View Device Group privilege What happens without this privilege You cannot see the Policies tab in the Power Overview page Manage Event The Manage Event privilege enables Adding Removing an event condition threshold Updating an event condition threshold Removing an event F NOTE To manage event you must also have the View Device Group privilege What happens without this privilege Access Control 48 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 Viewing Current User Information You can click the login user name at the upper right corner of any page or go to Settings User Accounts Current User to view and update the current user information You can View the current user information Update the current user password To update the user password 1 Click Update Password 2 Enter the current password and new password Enter the new password again to confirm 3 Click Apply Licensing P
71. ges F NOTE For the PostgreS0L database file pgdata if you want to do customized database backup recovery such as incremental backup recovery see the PosetgreSOL backup and recovery Web page at http www postgresql org docs 8 3 interactive backup html Backup and Recovery 140 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 Recover all Power Center data files Refer to your operating system documentation for instructions on how to change file privileges you need to add your OS user with the Read and Write privileges for the files listed in the Power Center Data table F NOTE Record your actions because these privileges will be removed later b Local Replace all of the Power Center data files above with your backup files except server xml and Java security Remote Replace all of the Power Center data files above with your backup files except server xml and java security and pedata folder Follow the PostgreSQL backup and recovery Web page to recover the remote database For both local and remote for best results rename these files for backup and copy backup files to this location For server xml you must manually update its parameters wi
72. h criteria This page lists network discovered devices and devices added manually From this page you can Add supported or unsupported devices to the Device List page e Remove devices from the Device List page Edit device information for a single device or multiple devices Edit protocol information for a single device Filter and sort devices to meet current needs This page enables you to manage the power policies Getting Started 17 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 This page enables you to set up and manage the user Accounts accounts Settings Licensing This page enables you to view or import the license Event Logs This page lists all events at all severity levels From this page you can View all events Add comments to events Delete the events Filter and sort the events Use Case Introduction This section provides several standard usage scenarios to help you get started with Power Center or refresh your knowledge of Power Center functionality If you are a first time user you can follow the sequence of use cases 1 5 to install and set up the group str
73. h the Network Service default account and this account has no Full Control privilege to the recovered pgdata folder the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service will not start and the recovery will fail 4 Start all Power Center services The Power Center recovery is completed F NOTE When you change the Read Write privileges for the files listed in the Power Center Data table to make sure the success of backup or recovery double check the privileges before proceeding to the next step Backup and Recovery 143 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 Resolution Check your proxy setting and make sure it is properly configured Problem 2 Cannot play video when clicking the video links in the Getting Started page Cause You do not have a flash player installed for your Web browser Resolution Install the latest version of Adobe Flash Player for your Web browser Problem 3 You have been logged out of Power Center automatically Cause Possible causes include 1 The network connection is lost 2 Your user account has been deleted
74. he latest sampling interval for the devices with Monitor power capability in the group The right box displays the level of this aggregated power value compared with the power thresholds you set in the Thresholds tab F NOTE Aggregated power value is the power value calculated by the power data aggregation The calculation formula is case by case and depends on whether the data aggregation is based on time periods or groups The right box displays different colors indicating different severity levels Red shows the power range that triggers a critical event Orange shows the power range that triggers a warning event Green shows the power range that does not trigger any event For more information on how to configure the sampling interval see Monitoring Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter For more information on how to configure the thresholds see Power Monitoring Configuration in this chapter Power Monitoring 86 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 Goto File Page Setup Format amp Options 2 Check the option Print Background colors amp image
75. he unit Power Center does not convert the cost value according to the exchange rate Power Center only changes the display of the currency symbol Configuring Power Center 127 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 PMI Communication timeout between Power Center and an IPMI enabled device 1 20 seconds The default is 3 seconds SNMP Communication timeout between Power Center and a SNMP enabled device 1 20 seconds The default is 3 seconds WS MAN Communication timeout between Power Center and a WS MAN device 5 180 seconds The default is 60 seconds When are the settings effective From the next time Power Center tries to communicate with the affected device Energy Consumption Settings These settings are used to calculate the energy consumption cost Flat Rate The rate of the power per kilowatt hour kWh it uses the currency you set in Default Units The default is 0 Cooling Multiplier The multiplier enables estimating the energy needed to cool the device group The default is 1 5 For more information on how the cooling multiplier is applied see Viewing Energy Consumption in the Power Monitoring chapter When are the settings effective Flat Rate From beginning of the next hour For example if you changed the s
76. his service and the Dell OpenManage Power Center SNMP Dispatcher shall be started on the Power Center server Problem 6 If Power Center uses a remote database during the installation the error message server side error has occurred please contact support displays when you launch the Power Center management console Cause The connection between Power Center and the remote database server is lost because the IP or hostname of the remote database server has been changed Resolution 1 Change the IP or hostname of the remote database to the previous value 2 Update the Power Center configuration files with the new database server address Perform the following steps These steps assume that Power Center is installed at C Program Files If Power Center is installed at a different location substitute the correct location a Assign the current OS user with Read and Write privileges to the configuration files app config xml and user config xml located at C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter conf b Open the two files with a text editor c Change the DB_ SERVER_NAME value to a new database server IP or hostname d Remove the privileges that you assigned to the configuration files in Step a e Restart all the Power Center services and launch the Power Center management console again Problem 7 The Firefox Web browser crashes when it has been running for a long time Troubleshooting 145 Cause Fire
77. hrough the Keytool Possible common scenarios include Scenario Generate a key pair and self signed certificate During the installation of Power Center a key pair and self signed certificate are generated for the Power Center server F NOTE When you delete an entry from the keystore file make sure you leave at least one key pair entry in the keystore file otherwise Power Center will not work Security 124 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 Scenario 3 Import a new Trust Certificate Some devices for example chassis or the exposed management interface through WS MAN or web service providers may provide a certificate for Power Center validation during the communication establishment If you validate the certificate and Power Center fails to verify it by building a trust path from the trust certificate in the keystore file the communication will fail In this scenario you may need to import a new trust certificate to make sure a trust path can be built to verify the certificate For more information on how to manage certificates see Keyt
78. ick Trusted Sites add about Blank in trusted sites F NOTE You may need to restart Internet Explorer for the configuration to take effect Installing and Launching 29 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 You must set up roles first and define the privileges for each role After that you can set up Power Center accounts and assign them with different roles Licensing Power Center requires a valid license You must import a license before the trial license expires About Authentication Power Center supports Power Center managed users and Windows users For cross domain authentication the domains must be two way transitively trusted by the domain in which the Power Center server is installed For domains that are one way trusted or not trusted by the domain in which the Power Center server is installed the authentication of user accounts in these domains is not supported and may fail Logging in About Login Power Center supports the following login methods Log in with user name and password You can use your user account to log into Power Center For m
79. imum temperature from 14 54 to 15 00 is 40 C Chassis Details The Chassis Details table appears when you access the Temperature Details page their on a chassis Chassis Details lists all blade servers within the chassis and temperature details in a table including Device Device name Temperature Monitoring 91 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 F 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 F NOTE The Average Maximum or Minimum field displays NA if no data is available For example when the blade server is an Unsupported device Monitoring Temperature of Chassis Blade Server You can monitor the inlet temperature at the blade server level You can also monitor the inlet temperature at the chassis level including average maximum and minimum details Monitoring Temperature of Devices Groups Power Center supports temperature monitoring of the inlet temperature span for devices and groups The inlet temperature span is the average inlet temperature differential between the maximum and minimum temperature reading for a device in a group Celsius or Fahrenheit You can calculate this
80. keeps compressed power temperature data and event data up to 365 days and non compressed power temperature data up to 14 days Configure the length of time that Power Center will keep compressed and non compressed data using the Purge Data Older Than and Data Compression fields The data that exceeds its length of time or is older than the purge date is deleted This improves the efficiency of the data query You can automatically purge data by using the Schedule Database Purging Daily at field or you can trigger it manually to start purging data immediately see the task To purge the database now You can set the following for database maintenance Configuring Power Center 130 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 Export Database You can export the data in a selected date range toa csv file Click Export Database and define a start and end date to export all the data between 00 00 00 of the start date to 00 00 00 of the next day after the end date to a csv file By default the csv file is saved in the Downloads folder of your Web browser The following data is
81. le in this chapter Protocol The corresponding protocol type displays after you select the device type If you selected a UPS or a PDU in the previous step you must select a protocol Credential Information Enter the protocol credential information Optional Device Information Device Model Enter the device model This field is available when you add an unsupported device Size of Device Select the device height 1 10 rack unit Description Enter a description for the device Faceplate Power Enter the faceplate power value De rated Power Enter the de rated power value 3 Click Apply Rediscovering Devices in a Chassis If you have physically added removed or changed your devices in a chassis you can update the device information Device Discovery 55 3 Go to Group Management Physical Logical Group gt View All Physical Groups Click the selected physical logical group icon and its device group and go to the Chassis level Click Rediscover Chassis Devices The devices information in the chassis is automatically updated Protocol Profile Power Center server uses protocol profile to communicate with the devices by specifying the device connection protocol and credential information You can add a new profile edit an existing profile or delete a profile You can select a protocol profile to discover the devices Power Center supports the following connection prot
82. lick Apply Physical Groups 70 F NOTE After the device is removed it still exists in the Device List page You can add itto 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 PDU UPS and Unsupported devices can be moved to any level of the physical group structure F NOTE The blades are populated automatically to the chassis when the chassis is added to the rack Ifthe blades were not discovered when the chassis was added to the rack the blades will be shown as Disconnected in the Device List The status willbe updated to Connected once the blades are discovered through the discovery process When the blade is moved physically in the chassis or from one chassis to another the Chassis group structure from the Power Center user interface will be updated only after the chassis is re discovered through the Power Center discovery process To move a device 1 Click Move 2 The Move Device window displays the physical group structure of the device on top and displays a list of physical groups data center under it as active links If you move a device in the rack click an active link to expand the group to display the racks and then select the rack to which you want to mo
83. lly disappears when the search completes To view the recent discovery jobs 1 The Recent Discovery Jobs section displays the four most recent discovery searches 2 Click Details to view the history information on each search To rerun the search 1 Inthe Recent Discovery Jobs section click Rerun Search next to a discovery job 2 The search starts automatically using the discovery job search criteria and the device information is updated in the Device List page Adding a Device Manually This section explains how to add a device manually in the Power Center management console To add a device manually 1 Goto the Device List page and click Add Device Discovery 54 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 IP Address or Hostname Enter a valid IP address or hostname optional for an Unsupported device F NOTE Enter either the IP Address or the Host Name field not both Power Center will check its validation make sure you have entered a valid IP address or host name Protocol Information Not required for an unsupported device For more information on credential information for the protocols see Protocol Profi
84. ly to make the data center group structure complete For supported devices Device Discovery 51 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 For unsupported devices Power Center does not communicate with unsupported devices therefore connection protocol and credential information is not necessary Unsupported devices cannot be discovered only added manually to the Device List Power Center adds the unsupported device to the group structure but cannot manage it using the available management functions You may need to enter the following power values when adding supported or unsupported devices Faceplate Power The maximum amount of power that a group device can draw this value should be listed on the power supply specifications The faceplate power rating is typically much higher than the actual power used by the device De rated Power The default maximum power value if a power measurement cannot be completed this value is used F NOTE Faceplate power value is always greater than the de rated power value Adding a Device from the Network This section explains how
85. m Access Control 36 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 dem dell com and the child domans east dcm dell com and west dcm dell com Power Center Server server east dcm dell com is the server with Power Center installed It is an AD domain controller the domain name is east dcm dell com e Power Center Client test west dcm dell com is the client server that connects to the network of the Power Center server SPN HTTP server1 Jack Dy HTTPiserver1 eastdcm dell com Jack Domain Controller dcm dell com Hostname dns SPN HTTP server1 Tom HTTP server1 east dcm dell com Tom 6 User Tom west dcm dell com HTTPiserver1 Jerry HTTPiserver1 east dcm dell com Jerry Domain Controller east dcm dell com Hostname server1 Power Center Server Domain Controller west dcm dell com Hostname server2 Server Test To set up the Kerberos SSO multiple domain environment perform the following steps Step 1 Install Power Center When installing Power Center do the following 1 Set up the Default Realm Name of the domain in which Power Center is installed You must enter FODN For example east dcm dell com 2 Set up the AD Domain Controller addresses Separate multiple ad
86. main Account Windows domain account Local Windows Account Windows local account on the Power Center server F NOTE Before logging into Power Center using either the Windows domain or the Windows local account you must add the account into Power Center by accessing the User Accounts page For more information on how to open the Power Center management console see Launching Power Center in the Installing and Launching chapter Access Control 31 Log in Using Your Power Center Account To log in using your Power Center Account OPENMANAGE POWER CENTER Login Select the login method Power Center Account Windows Domain Account Local Windows Account User Name Password rw c Powered by Intel Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager N Remember me Select Power Center Account default Enter the User Name This is the user name of the Power Center account Enter the Password This is the user password of the Power Center account Click Login Access Control 32 Log in Using the Windows Domain Account To log in using the Windows Domain Account OPENMANAGE POWER CENTER Login Select the login method PowerCenter Account Windows Domain Account Local Windows Account User Name Password LS EE Domain Powered by Intel Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager N Remember me Login 1 Select Windows Domain Account 2 Enter the Use
87. mation on how to import the certificate to Power Center see Managing Certificates in the Security chapter SNMP vlv2c Select an SNMP protocol version from SMMPv1 or SNMP v2 v2c for the PDU or UPS SNMP Community string Required Maximum length is 255 characters SNMP v3 Select SNMP v3 for the PDU or UPS SNMP User Name Required Maximum length is 255 characters SNMP Authentication Password Required Maximum length is 16 characters SNMP Encryption Password Maximum length is 255 characters When the SNMP Authentication Password is empty the SNMP Encryption Password is also empty You can set up multiple protocol profiles for each protocol Device Discovery 57 Device Management The Device List page lists network discovered devices and devices added manually From this page you can Add supported or unsupported devices to the Device List page Remove devices from the Device List page Edit device information for a single device or multiple devices Edit protocol information for a single device Filter and sort devices to meet current needs Viewing Devices The Device List page lists the following device information Table 6 1 Device Information Field Description Name Device Name Power Center resolves this name during the network discovery Status Device status including Connected Lost connection e Unknown IP Address Device IP address Hostname Device
88. mmand line with the Administrator privilege Run the following command to remove the original database service The command below assumes Power Center is installed at CAProgram Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter If Power Center is installed at a different location substitute the correct location C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external pgsql bin pg_ctl exe unregister N Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server 4 Run the following commands to create new database services with the new database port The command below assumes the new database port is 6543 If it is a different port number substitute the correct number C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter external pgsql bin pg_ctl exe register N Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server D C Program Files Dell OpenManagePowerCenter pgdata o F p 6543 5 Run the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service using the Network Service account For more information on how to run the service using a Network Service account see Windows Help The following is an example for Windows 7 a Open Computer Management Services and Applications gt Services and then select the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service right click and select Properties b In the Properties window click the Log On tab Go to This Account field enter the Network Service account information then click OK 6 Start the Dell OpenMana
89. n More A Create a data center group down to the rack level B Add devices at rack level add to the rack slot Learn More Monitor power and temperature for a device or a group and create and apply power policies to devices or groups Learn More Event Type v Description Time Stamp Getting Started 16 Table 2 1 Available Actions Main Page Available Actions on This Page Getting Started Power Overview Group Management Discovery Device List Policies 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 This page enables you to view or edit data center power information of a physical group or logical group and view the information of devices in a rack or chassis This page includes these tabs Events Dashboards Power Details Temperature Details Policies Thresholds This page enables you to set up and organize your devices into physical or logical groups This page discovers supported devices in the data center network After a device is discovered it is automatically added to the Device List page and can be managed by Power Center From this page you can View the active searches View the recent discovery jobs Rerun a search using the discovery searc
90. nagement Click Next In the OpenManage Power Center Setting screen continue to enter the following information for the PostgreSQL database server account Use another database server This option enables you to install the Power Center database on a remote server To use this option the system must meet the following requirements The remote server must have a running PostgreSQL database service v8 3 5 You can download it from http www postgresql org There is no Power Center database on the remote server The database service on the remote server is able to accept remote database connnection For more information on this see Change to Database on a Remote System in the Configuring Power Center chapter The correct connection information Server Name Database Port Database User Name Database User Password is provided If you enabled the option to use another database server enter the following information about the database service on the remote server User Name Enter your PostgreSQL database server user name User Password Enter your PostgreSQL database server user password F NOTE The password must be a minimum of 8 characters in length with characters from at least three of the following categories uppercase lowercase numeric non alphanumeric It cannot include spaces Verify password Enter the password again to confirm PostgreSQL Port Default value
91. nagement 112 Table 14 2 Custom Events Type Description Severity Level Average Inlet Average temperature is greater or less than Critical or Temperature the average value you set in the Thresholds Warning depends on the threshold type Max Power Power consumption is greater than the Critical or Policy Cannot Be Maintained Policy Return To Normal Power Return To Normal Temperature Return To Normal maximum value you set in the Thresholds Policy cannot be maintained because the average power consumption of the devices with power capping capability that relate to this policy exceed the power cap value of this policy Policy can be maintained now because the power consumption is less than the power cap value Power consumption returned to the normal range you set in the Thresholds Temperature returned to the normal range you set in the Thresholds Warning depends on the threshold type Critical Informative Informative Informative When the following change occurs the corresponding Critical or Warning g P 8 event becomes an Informative event Power Temperature Return to Normal event is triggered For example for Average Inlet Temperature if you set 50 C as the Critical threshold and 40 C as the Warning threshold when the average temperature reaches 60 C Critical and Warning events are sent When the average temperature returns to 45 C the
92. ncluding Thresholds Inlet temperature range for events Device and group range Monitor all or not Sampling interval 1 3 or 6 minutes Default units Celsius or Fahrenheit Thresholds is useful if you want to be notified when the temperature of the group device exceeds the thresholds Once the temperature value exceeds a critical or warning threshold the related event is sent Temperature Monitoring 88 To configure thresholds 1 Go to Power Overview Physical or Logical Groups and click the group device icon 2 Goto Thresholds Temperature Thresholds and click Edit 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 Critical thresholds for average inlet temperature Less When the temperature is less than the setting the critical level event Average Inlet Temperature is sent Warning thresholds for average inlet temperature Greater When the temperature is greater than the setting the warning level event Average Inlet Temperature is sent Warning thresholds for average inlet temperature Less When the temperature is less than the setting the warning level event Average Inlet Temperature is sent 4 Click Apply After you configured the thresholds you will see four lines with different colors indica
93. nd cost including IT energy and cooling energy To compare the groups devices go to the Compare page and complete the following two steps 1 Change the Time Period 2 Adda Device or Group Changing the Time Period You can select a date and time range to compare the monitored power and temperature status of the devices within the selected period To select a date and time period 1 Click Change Time Period 2 Select start date and end dates from Date From and Date To You can either select from the calendar or manually enter the dates following this format lt YYYY MM DD gt 3 Select start and end times from Time From and Time To You can select from the drop down list If you need to compare the data for one day 24 hours select 00 00 of this date and 00 00 of the next day to compare 4 Click Apply Comparing 106 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 2 Click Add Device or Group Click a category in the left pane Physical Group Logical Group or All Devices to display a specific group device selection window In the selection window use the displayed information to select a group or device Physical Group a The group selection window lists the physical groups as active links Click an active link to expand the group to display all groups th
94. nd you configured different priorities or power caps for the policy with the same time slot In this case Power Center follows these rules If there are overlapping policies on an entity the policy with the lowest power cap is applied If there are overlapping dynamic policies on an entity and both are currently active the highest priority High gt Medium gt Low of this entity is applied Policy Modes The policy mode is shown in the Enabled and Active columns in the Policies page A green symbol indicates Enabled or Active Power Center supports three policy modes Table 12 1 Policy Modes Enabled Active Mode Description Column Column Green Green Enabled and active The policy is in use now Green NA Enabled but not The policy is available but not in use active now NA NA Disabled The policy is created but not available for use Enabling Disabling Policy After you create a new policy it is enabled by default To disable or re enable a policy Power Policies 102 Go to the Policies page or the Policies tab in the Power Overview page 1 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 3 Click Power Policy
95. nly accepts local host connection requests IPv4 local connections host all all 127 0 0 1 32 password New value Accepts connection requests from local host and 192 168 11 11 IPv4 local connections host all all 192 168 11 11 32 password host all all 127 0 0 1 32 password Start the Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server service NOTE For more information on PostgreSQL client authentication see http www postgresql org docs 8 3 static client authentication html Configuring Power Center 137 Step 3 Change PostgreSOL 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 Kerberos Realm Settings You can configure the following Kerberos realm settings in the Settings page Realm Name Domain Name of KDC server KDC Server Address of KDC server either IP address or server name You must restart Power Center services after you make the changes When are the settings effective After restarting all Power Center services For more information on how to restart Power Center services see Power Center Services in the Installing and Launching chapter 8 Power Center Server s Domain Account for Kerberos SSO You can configure the following Kerberos SSO pre authentication settings in the Set
96. nt settings for the Windows Active Directory AD domain controller Power Center server and Web browser Single Domain Environment The following illustration shows how to set up a single domain environment with the following components Domain Controller dns dcm dell com is the Windows AD server that supports domain dem dell com Father and Child Power Center Server serverl dcm dell com is the server with Power Center installed Power Center Client server2 dcm dell com is the client server that connects to the Power Center server SPN HTTPiserver1 Tom HTTPiserver1 dem dell com Tom I dcm dell com Domain Controller dns dcm dell com 192 168 0 250 Power Center Login SSO 8 Power Center Server Windows domain user Jack Server2 dcm dell com 192 168 0 3 Server1 dcm dell com192 168 0 2 To set up the Kerberos SSO single domain environment perform the following steps Step 1 Install Power Center When installing Power Center 1 Set up a Realm Name You must enter a Fully Qualified Domain Name FODN of the Realm For example dem dell com Access Control 35 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 dem 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 passwor
97. nter automatically names the groups by adding a number starting from 1 to it For example if you enter the name GroupA and number 10 Power Center creates ten groups named GroupA1 GroupA2 GroupA10 5 Click Apply Managing Logical Groups After you created a logical group you can add a physical group device or another logical group to this group Adding a Logical Group To add a logical group 1 Click Add New 2 Select the physical group logical group or device and click Apply Logical Groups 74 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 Ed 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 However you can add a chassis from the Physical Group category if the chassis is already added to a rack To add a device or group to a logical group 1 Click a category in the left pane Physical Group Logical Group or All Devices to display a specific group device selection window In the selection window use the displayed information to select a group or device Physical Group a The group selection window lists the physical groups as active links Click an active link to expand the group to display all groups that are part
98. ocol types and includes several optional settings F NOTE Get the correct protocol type and credential information from your device administrator The user name and password for the IPMI WS MAN protocol must be the same as those used for the iDRAC CMC web console IPMI Select IPMI protocol for the server IPMI User Name Maximum length is 16 characters IPMI Password Maximum length is 255 characters IPMI Key A string of 40 hex digits WS MAN Select WS MAN protocol for the chassis WS MAN User Name HTTP basic user name maximum length is 255 characters WS MAN Password HTTP basic password maximum length is 255 characters WS MAN Port Default value is 443 or enter a port number from 1 to 65535 WS MAN Validate Certificate Optional Enables device certificate validation F NOTE A trusted certificate must be imported into the system before the WS MAN Validate Certificate option is enabled or the communication may fail For more information on how to install the certificate using the Dell Chassis Device Discovery 56 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 For more infor
99. of that physical group b Click a physical group s active link and then click Select c The physical group is added to and displayed in the Group Management Logical Groups page Logical Group a The group selection window lists the logical groups as active links b Click a logical group s active link c The logical group is added to and displayed in the Group Management Logical Groups page All Devices a The group selection window displays a list of all devices b Click Select to add the device to the Group Management Logical Groups page Logical Groups 75 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 Click Edit Enter new Name and Description for the group Click Apply Deleting Logical Groups To delete a logical group 1 2 3 4 EZ Go to Group Management Logical Groups and click Select a Logical Group then click the icons to select a group Click Delete Select the groups checkboxes to delete them Click Apply NOTE If deleting the logical group affects the policy an event will be sent You can view it in the Event Logs page Viewing Logical Groups To view details of the logical group go to the Logical Groups page There are two scenarios for accessing the Logical Group
100. olicies page in the management console to view all policies in the data center Use Case 8 Comparing Two or More Devices Groups This use case describes how to compare the power temperature status and the energy cost for two or three devices groups Getting Started 21 Go to the Compare page Select two or three devices or groups to compare See Adding a Device or Group in the Comparing chapter 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 Optionally click Print to print the comparison results You may need to configure your Web browser before printing See Printing the Comparison Result in the Comparing chapter Getting Started 22 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 Installing Power Center To install Power Center you must have Administrator privilege Otherwise the installation may fail Before installing Power Center verify that your system meets the minimum system requirements See System Requirements in the
101. on on the user name and password tules 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 F NOTE If you assign user A to role 1 and role 2 it has all privileges of role 1 and role 2 4 Enter the user description This field is optional This is useful when there are two users with the same user name You can enter a description to distinguish between them 5 Click Apply Updating a User After a user is created you can update the user s privilege or password however you cannot update the user type and description To update a user 1 Go to Settings User Accounts User Accounts 2 Click Update Password to update the user password or click Edit to edit Role 1 Role 2 Role 3 or Role 4 to update user privileges 3 Click Apply F NOTE You cannot edit the privileges of the Power Center super user that was created during the installation Deleting a User To delete a user 1 Coto Settings User Accounts User Accounts and click Delete 2 Select the users checkboxes to delete them 3 Click Apply F NOTE You cannot delete the Power Center managed user super user that was created during the installation Access Control 42 Managing Privileges A user privilege is a right to execute a particular type of Power Center function Privileges are not configurabl
102. 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 See the following guideline and facilities to enhance the security for your Power Cener system Starting services with a normal Windows operating system OS user account After installing Power Center the Power Center services are logged on with the Network Service account by default You can use a normal Windows OS user account instead of the Network Service account The Windows OS user account provides better security OS hardening You can deploy OS hardening on the OS where Power Center is installed By doing so the minimum security foundation is set up for Power Center security related configurations Audit log Power Center tracks the action log for critical user operations including user login logout emergency power reduction start stop network discovery security configuration and policy change Certificate management Power Center enables SSL TLS communication between the Power Center management console and the Power Center server and the communication between the Power Center server and chassis to enforce the confidentiality and data integrity of the communication The SSL TLS authentication is certificate based Power Center uses a keystore file to manage the certificates
103. ool Help Security 125 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 Monitor all devices and groups Select to enable or disable monitoring of all devices and groups The default is Yes If you select No you cannot view the device group power and temperature details Power sampling interval Power Center gets power data according to the sampling interval you set 1 3 or 6 minutes You can view the power data in the Power Details page The default is 1 minute For more information on power details see the Power Monitoring chapter Temperature sampling interval Power Center gets temperature data according to the sampling interval you set 1 3 or 6 minutes You can view the temperature data in the Temperature Details page The default is l minute For more information on temperature details see the Temperature Monitoring chapter Recommended Sampling Intervals for Performance Tuning and Scaling It is important to configure appropriate Power and Temperature Sampling Intervals in Power Center The sampling intervals imp
104. ore information see Log in with User Name and Password in this chapter Log in using Kerberos Single Sign On SSO This feature enables you to log in without entering the user name and password if you have already logged in the Windows domain with your domain account Power Center Access Control 30 only supports Kerberos based SSO For more information on SSO see Single Domain Environment and Multiple Domain Environment in this chapter F 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 F NOTE You must add the SSO user account to Power Center before you can log in using SS0 You will skip the login page and enter the Getting Started page directly using SS0 After you log into Power Center you cannot log out when you click Logout To log out close the Web browser or Power Center management console Power Center tries Kerberos SSO first If it fails the Power Center login form appears and you can use the user account information to log into Power Center Log in with User Name and Password To log into Power Center with the user name and password you can use one of the following accounts Power Center Account You can create this account in Power Center For the first time login you must use the Power Center user account created during the installation Do
105. ow to discover devices from the network and add devices manually in the Power Center management console Power Center device discovery includes both the automatic detection of all devices on your data center and the collection of basic information about each device such as the device name connection status device type device model its IP address and hostname and the protocol it uses for communication This enables you to track the device status and your data center information You can also manage these discovered devices in Power Center If there is a new or changed device in your data center you can use the device discovery function to rediscover the devices You must have the Manage Device Group and Discover Device privileges to add a device to Power Center There are two scenarios for adding devices Add a device from the network You can discover a device from the network The discovered devices will be automatically added to the Device List Add a device manually You can use the Power Center management console to specify device properties and add a device to the Device List F NOTE If you use a network security policy the discovery function may not work properly Supported Devices and Unsupported Devices You can add or discover supported devices and create a group structure to build out the data center Power Center cannot discover or manage all device types and unsupported devices must be added manual
106. ower Center requires a valid license You can import and view a license in the Licensing page Importing License Power Center automatically installs a 60 day trial license during installation When the trial license expires most of the Power Center features are disabled You must import a perpetual license before the trial license expires F NOTE 0nly users with the Manage License privilege can import a license Access Control 49 To import a license 1 2 3 4 Request a license from www dell com powercenter Click Import License Click Upload File 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 License Type Trial 60 days or Perpetual Expiration For Trial license only Displays the license expiration date in the format YYYY MM DD Days Left xx Status Valid or Expired NOTE The Getting Started page displays a warning message when the license expires in less than 30 days Access Control 50 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 h
107. physical layout For more information on how to create and manage physical groups see the Physical Groups chapter Logical Group 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 more information on how to create and manage logical groups see the Logical Groups chapter Mapping Group Structure Information Power Center supports group stucture mapping for Dell PowerEdge rack servers and tower servers For more information on the specific models see Supported Devices in the Overview chapter After you have created or updated the group structure Power Center automatically updates the location information in the firmware of supported devices at the following mapping structure Data Center Data center and Room information in Power Center format lt Data Center Room gt Aisle Aisle information in Power Center Rack Rack information in Power Center Rack Slot Rack slot information in Power Center Chassis Chassis information in Power Center if applicable Group Management 64 F 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 st
108. ply To delete all devices Device Management 61 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 Click a filtering option in the left pane IP Range Date Range Protocol Status Device Type Model Physical Group Faceplate De rated Power or Power Capability to display a specific filtering option window 4 In the filtering option window use the displayed information to select filtering options You can use one or more options to filter devices IP Range Enter the start and end IP address of devices Date Range Enter the start and end date of device discovery Enter the dates manually following this format lt YYYY MM DD gt or select the dates from the calendar Devices discovered from 00 00 00 of start date to 00 00 00 of the next day after the end date are displayed For example if you enter the filtering option 2011 01 01 as both start date and end date all devices discovered between 00 00 00 of 2011 01 01 and 00 00 00 of 2011 01 02 are displayed Protocol Select the protocols used for communication You can select multiple protocols Status Select device statuses You can select multiple statuses Device Type
109. pply F NOTE The maximum length for a comment is 512 characters F NOTE The comment cannot be edited after you click Apply You can only add more comments Power Center automatically adds the User Name and Time Stamp information to each comment Deleting Events Power Center automatically deletes old events according to your database purge settings For more information on database purge settings see Database Policy Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter Event Management 116 You can also manually delete events in Power Center To delete events 1 Goto the Event Logs page 2 Click Delete gt 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 gt Delete All 3 A message window appears read the message and click Yes All the events currently listed on the page will be deleted Filtering Events If many events occurred and you want to view specific events for example critical events of last week you can filter the events To filter events 1 Go to the Event Logs page 2 Click Filter 3 The Filter window opens Click a filtering option in the left pane Date Range Severity or Type to display a specific filtering option window 4 In the filtering option window use the displayed information to select filtering options You can select multiple filtering options Date Range Enter the event start
110. pports up to ten concurrent user login instances When multiple users log into Power Center if one user implements a change in Power Center for example deleting a device or moving a device this may cause unexpected behavior for other logged in users For example Access Control 39 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 Each role has different privileges Administrator All privileges Power User All privileges except the Manage Role User and Manage License privileges Guest View Device Group privileges only Only a user with the Manage Role User privilege can add edit delete a role in Power Center Adding a Role If you are an administrator you can add a new role assign privileges to it and add users to the new role To add a role 1 Go to Settings User Accounts User Roles and click Add Role 2 Enter the following role information Name Role name The length must be less than 50 characters The role name must be unique Description Optional Role description The length mus
111. r 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 Enter the Domain This is the domain name of this user account 5 Click Login Access Control 33 Log in Using the Windows Local Account To log in using the Windows Local Account 4 OPENMANAGE POWER CENTER Login Select the login method Power Center Account Windows Domain Account Local Windows Account User Name Powered by Intel Node Manager and Intel Data Center Manager I Remember me Select Local Windows Account Enter the User Name This is the user name of the local Windows account Enter the Password This is the user password of the local Windows account Click Login After successful login the Getting Started page opens Now you can start to use Power Center functions F NOTE A windows local account with blank password may fail to log into Power Center due to the Windows security policy settings For more information on the security policy settings see the Microsoft Web site or Windows Help Access Control 34 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 environme
112. r all devices in a power policy a device requiring more power may not get it as the power cap of another device in the policy could become violated as it is lowered If you wish to force one or more devices in a policy to a lower cap you can create a static power policy for the device at a lower level In this case the most restrictive power cap of the overlapping policies is applied to the device If there is excess available power from the power cap known as headroom after the power capping requirements is met for all devices in the policy then this excess power can be allocated dynamically according to the priority and demand of the device in the power policy Power Policies 96 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 Power Policy Capabilities Power Center defines the following statuses of power policy capabilities for the devices Unknown Shown for unsupported devices or devices that were never connected to Power Center None No power policy capability You cannot set any policy on the device Monitor With power monitoring capability only Monitor amp Capping With power monitoring and capping capabilities Monitor and Upgradable With power monitoring capability and can be upgrad
113. r 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 Goto Thresholds Power Thresholds and click Edit Enter values for the following e Critical threshold for maximum power When the maximum power exceeds the setting the critical level event Max Power is sent Critical threshold for average power When the average power exceeds the setting the critical level event Average Power is sent Warning threshold for maximum power When the maximum power exceeds the setting the warning level event Max Power is sent Warning threshold for average power When the average power exceeds the setting a warning level event Average Power is sent 4 Click Apply After you configure the thresholds you will see four lines with different colors indicating the thresholds in the Power Details tab For more information on how to configure device group range and sampling interval see Monitoring Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter For more information on how to configure default units and energy consumption see Energy Consumption Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter Power Monitoring 79 Viewing Power Details Go to Power Overview Physical or Logical Groups click the group device icon and then open the
114. range color shows the temperature range that triggers a warning event Green color shows the temperature range that does not trigger any event For more information on how to configure the sampling interval see Monitoring Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter Temperature Monitoring 93 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 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 For how to enable the Print Background option and other print settings see Printing Power Monitoring Dashboard Graph in the Power Monitoring chapter Temperature Monitoring 94 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 You can set up a policy with a scheduled time according to the workload of the device group for example you can set an aggressive cap when the worklo
115. rk in the Device Discovery chapter Editing Devices You can edit the device information of devices listed in the Power Center management console To edit a single device 1 2 3 4 Go to the Device List page Click Edit Tasks gt Edit Edit the Name Description IP Address or Host Name Size of Device Faceplate Power or de rated Power of the device F NOTE You cannot edit the Faceplate Power and De rated Power for a chassis F NOTE For IP Address and Host Name fields enter either the IP Address or the Host Name field not both If you edit the IP address Power Center does not check its validation If you edit the host name Power Center does check its validation Make sure you enter a valid host name If you editthe host name to an integer in the range of 0 4294967295 the Power Center server uses the IP address which can be represented by this integer for device communication For example if you edit the host name to 3232235777 the Power Center server communicates with the device using IP address 192 168 1 1 Click Apply You can use the batch edit function to edit the information of multiple devices at once To batch edit devices 1 2 3 4 Go to the Device List page Click Edit Tasks gt Batch Edit Select the devices checkboxes to edit them and click Next Enter the Size Faceplate Power de rated Power Description or Protocol for the devices Device Management 60 F N
116. rt gt powercenter See Launching Power Center in the Installing and Launching chapter Select a user account and enter your user name and password See Logging in in the Access Control chapter The Power Center management console appears You can start to use Power Center functions Use Case 3 Adding a Device from the Network This use case describes how to discover devices from the network of your data center Getting Started 19 Go to the Discovery page to add devices from the network Configure the search criteria for the devices you want to discover See Adding a Device from the Network in the Device Discovery chapter 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 1 Go to the Device List page select the devices you want to manage then delete edit filter them Or you can click Add in the Device List page to add a device manually then manage it See Adding a Device Manually in the Device Discovery chapter Use Case 5 Creating the Data Center Group Structure This use case describes how to create the data center group structure 1 2 Go to the Group Management page click Select a Physical Group Create the physical groups following this order Data Center Room Aisle Rack gt Chassis See Data Center Physical Group in the Physical Groups chapter Add de
117. ructure is set up you can find a group or device from the Power Overview or Group Management page You can do the following in the Power Overview page Find a physical group or device excludes Unsupported devices Find a logical group View the event status If there are critical or warning events in the group or device an event icon is displayed next to the group device icon If the critical and warning events both exist only the critical event icon is displayed View the power details of the group device For more information on power details see the Power Monitoring chapter Click the Manage Group link on the top to enter the Group Management page of the selected group device You can do the following in the Group Management page Find a physical group Find a logical group Manage the selected group For more information on how to manage the groups see the other sections in this chapter Click the View Power Overview link on the top to enter the Power Overview page and view the power details To find a physical group or device 1 Go to Power Overview Select a Physical Group or Device Or go to Group Management Select a Physical Group The page displays the data center physical group structure on the top Click the data center and its group icon to expand the group structure Select the group or device that you are looking for Group Management 65 4 The page displays the selected group de
118. s 3 Click OK To enable Print Background in Microsoft Internet Explorer 1 Go to File Page Setup 2 Check the option Print Background Colors and Images 3 Click OK When you print the graphs in Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 you need to make sure The Web browser mode is not set as Internet Explorer 7 mode The following options are all selected in File Page Setup Portrait Print Background Colors and Images Enable Shrink to Fit Power Monitoring 87 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 You can monitor the temperature status at different device group levels you can configure the temperature monitoring settings to meet your monitoring needs and you can print the temperature status graph Temperature Monitoring Level Power Center provides temperature monitoring at the following levels Device level You can monitor temperature related metrics for devices Physical group level You can monitor temperature related metrics at the physical group level data center room aisle chassis modular Logical group level You can monitor temperature related metrics at the logical group level Temperature Monitoring Configuration You can configure temperature monitoring settings in Power Center i
119. s 95 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 Demand Amount of power a device requests to accommodate its workload The top priority of the dynamic power policy is to maintain the power cap of the group Maintaining this cap means that all devices can execute their workloads without needing more power than the cap The priority of the device may not be taken into account when allocating power cap to a group of devices if most or the entire power cap is allocated towards maintaining the power cap on each of the devices in the policy if lower priority devices require more power to maintain their cap they may actually receive more power than a higher priority device If the power cap is too restrictive and the group power consumption exceeds the power cap an event is sent for the power policy You need to reconsider the power allocation or adjust workloads when a power policy is consistently violated by one or more devices exceeding their power cap If fluctuations in device power requirements happen once the power cap is successfully established fo
120. s page Access from the left pane of the Power Center management console You can click Group Management Select a Logical Group to enter this page This page lists all of the logical groups You can click a logical group s active links 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 s device s content page This page lists the detailed information of the content in this group device Logical Groups 76 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 Events All events in the logical group including Critical Warning and Informative For more information on event severity see Event Severity Levels in the Event Management chapter Dashboards Power dashboard temperature dashboard and power capacity details for racks only Power Details Power graphic and energy consumption summary Temperature Details Temperature graphic and details summary Policies The policies applied on the logical group and their status
121. ssis User defined group Temperature Monitoring Monitors data center temperature data Power Control Creates policies that can control the data center power consumption at the device and group level Device Discovery Supports Dell enterprise systems including PowerEdge blade and tower rack servers chassis and many different PDUs and UPS Role based Access Control Supports user authentication and multiple role based privilege levels Event Management Monitor and manage device group events Overview 11 Topology The following figure shows how to use a Web browser to access the Power Center server and manage the data center Power Center User Access is Web Browser Power Center Server Monitoring Trending Control Data Center Physical Group Logical Group g Data Center dq Room ge d Logical dy Aisle ge Groups Lg Rack Logical Groups ss Servers tod Chassis N Blade H PDUS UPS Overview 12 System Reguirements Hardware Requirements for Server System You must install Power Center on a system with at least A dual core processor of 2 6Ghz or higher 4GBRAM 60GB free space of hard drive Gigabit bandwidth of network infrastructure Software Requirements for Server System Power Center supports the following operating systems Microsoft Windows 2003 Standard Enterprise Small Business Server SP2 x86 x64 Microsoft Windows 2003 Stand
122. stalling Power Center the existing power cap value set in the policies including EPR still remain effective on the devices To avoid impacts to the devices remove all devices from the Power Center management console before uninstalling Power Center Make sure to check your data center power capacity before removing the devices to avoid tripping the breaker because the policies will be removed at the same time To uninstall Power Center 1 2 Go to Start Control Panel Add Remove Programs From the Add Remove Programs dialog select Dell Power Measurement Mitigation and Management and click Remove Click Yes to confirm Follow the on screen instructions Installing and Launching 27 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 Launching Power Center To launch the Power Center management console enter the following address in lower case in your Web browser https lt Server_Name gt lt HTTPS_Port gt powercenter For example https ocalhost 8643 powercentet F NOTE For Windows 2003 if you reinstall Power Center on the same server using a different HTTPS port you must log off Windows OS then log in once to make sure the
123. t be less than 1024 characters Privileges Select the privileges for this role 3 Click Apply Access Control 40 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 F NOTE Pre defined roles cannot be edited Deleting a Role To delete a role 1 Coto Settings User Accounts User Roles and click Delete 2 Select the roles checkboxes to delete them 3 Click Apply F NOTE Pre defined roles cannot be deleted Managing User Accounts You can create users and assign them with different roles If you have the Manage Role User privilege you can add edit delete a user in Power Center Adding a User If you have the Manage Role User privilege you can add a new user and assign roles to this user To add a user 1 Go to Settings User Accounts gt User Accounts and click Add User 2 Select the user type Enter the required information Local Windows Account Enter a valid user name of the Windows account It can be either a user account name or a group account name Windows Domain Account Enter a valid user name of the Windows domain account and Windows domain name It can be either a user account name or a group account name Access Control 41 Power Center Account Create a user name and password for the Power Center account For more informati
124. tarting Services with a Normal Windows 0S User Account 120 OSHardening 2 2 aaa 122 Audit bog 2 250 24 Se hed he Pee Bees 123 Managing Certificates 124 Contents 16 Configuring Power Center 126 Monitoring Settings 126 Default Units Settings 127 Protocol Type Device Timeout Settings 128 Energy Consumption Settings 128 SNMP Traps Settings 128 Database Policy Settings 130 Installation Settings 00020 132 Database Settings aaa aa 132 Kerberos Realm Settings aa 138 Power Center Server s Domain Account for Kerberos SSO 138 17 Backup and Recovery 139 Power Center Data 2 139 Power Center Backup 140 Power Center Recovery aaa 141 18 Troubleshooting 144 Contents 10 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 Product Features Feature Description Power Monitoring Monitors power related metrics on several levels Individual device Data center Room Aisle Rack Cha
125. ted on Dell Managed Rack PDU 6605 APC PDU PDU Low Load PDU High Load PDU Overload Serverlech PDU PDU High Load PDU Outlet On PDU_Outlet Off Emerson PDU PDU Low Load PDU High Load PDU Overload Event Management 114 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 A For errors that require attention You need to look into the root cause and decide whether to take action Informative Ti An indication of an event that is not an error or warning This is an informational event you do not need to take any action F NOTE There may be an inconsistency between the severity levels defined in Power Center and the levels defined on monitored devices For example a severe level event in other platforms might be a warning level event in Power Center Viewing Events You can see the critical events notification from the Current Status section in the left pane of the Power Center management console with the total critical events number shown You can view events from the following pages Power Overview page This page lists events at Critical and Warning severity levels only Go to Power Overview Physical Logical Groups This page displays events
126. th the parameters in the original server xml backup file 1 Update SSL port Replace the following highlighted value with the value in the server xml backup file lt Connector port 8688 protocol HTTP 1 1 server localhost maxHttpHeaderSize 8192 connectionTimeout 60000 xpoweredBy false allowTrace false scheme http redirectPort 8643 gt lt Connector protocol org apache coyote httpll Httpl1llProtocol port Backup and Recovery 141 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 ssl keystorePass DCM10 pass clientAuth false sslProtocol TLS gt 2 Update the Keystore path Replace value below in bold with the actual location of recovered keystore ssl file lt Connector protocol org apache coyote httpll Httpl1llProtocol port 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
127. the recent three discovery tasks Step 2 Select Protocol You can either create a new protocol profile or use an existing protocol profile To create a new protocol profile 1 Click Add Protocol Enter information in the following fields Profile Name Enter the profile name The profile name must be less than 16 characters Description Enter the description for this profile Protocol Select the protocol used for communicating with devices through the network You must enter credential information for the selected protocol For more information on protocol information see Protocol Profile in this chapter 2 Click Apply The new protocol profile is added and displayed at top of the page Click next to a profile to see its details Device Discovery 53 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 3 Click Apply The IP address range is updated To view an active search 1 Click View Active Searches to view the status of the active searches 2 The search progress percentage bar displays and the bar automatica
128. then click Select Logical Group a The filtering option window lists the logical groups as an active link b Click a logical group s active link All Devices a The filtering option window displays a list of all devices b Click Select next to a device 3 The Event Logs page displays the filtered events Sending Test Events from an IPMI Device Power Center enables you to view test events sent from an IPMI device therefore you can verify the event channel between the PMI device and Power Center server Before sending a test event make sure Event Management 118 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 Click Send next to the Power Center server address to send a test event Access the Power Center management console You can see that the informative event IPMI Test appears in the Event Logs page For more information on step 1 and 2 see the IPMI device Help Event Management 119 Security Power Center is designed to ensure data confidentiality data integrity and the security of user authentication Power Center not
129. ting role Creating user Deleting user Updating user What happens without this privilege You only can view your own user account information and update the password The User Roles and User Accounts sections are not displayed in the User Accounts page View Device Group The View Device Group privilege enables Viewing all devices and groups information What happens without this privilege You cannot view any device or group information you can only view the Settings page F NOTE Users with only View Device Group privilege have the following restrictions 1 The Discovery page is not available to them 2 The pages under Devices Groups do not enable Add Delete Edit functionalities Manage Device Group The Manage Device Group privilege enables Access Control 47 Creating logical groups Creating a Data Center Room Aisle Rack Device Associating Data Center Room Aisle Rack Device Logical Group with parent logical groups Deleting a Data Center Room Aisle Rack Device Logical Group Managing a device Removing a device group from the Device List F NOTE When you assign the Manage Device Group privilege to a user Power Center automatically assigns the View Device Group privilege to this user What happens without this privilege You can view all devices and groups information but cannot add delete edit manage the devices and groups Manage Policy The Manage Policy privile
130. ting the thresholds in the Temperature Details tab For more information on how to configure the device group range and sampling interval see Monitoring Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter For more information on how to configure the default units and energy consumption see Energy Consumption Settings in the Configuring Power Center chapter Viewing Temperature Details Go to Power Overview Physical or Logical Groups page and click the group device icon then open the Temperature Details tab to view its temperature details Temperature Details Temperature Monitoring 89 RACK EVENTS DASHBOARD POWER DETAILS WizlldiTuidariEd POLICIES THRESHOLDS TEMPERATURE DETAILS gt Print Zoom 15 Mn 1H 1D iw 1M 3M 1Y 14 36 14 42 14 48 02 28 2012 14 12 02 28 2012 15 12 lt lt Average AB0VE THRESHOLD Critical Maximum Minimum Warning BELOW THRESHOLD Critical 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 Time Window and Time Interval Time Window Description Time Interval 15Min 1H 1D 1W 15 minutes 1 hour 1 day 1 week minute 3 minutes 1 hour 6 hours Temperature Monitoring 90 Table 11 1 Time Window and Time Interval Tim
131. tings page User Name User name for Kerberos pre authentication account Password Password for Kerberos pre authentication account When are the settings effective Immediately For more information on Kerberos pre authentication settings see Installing Power Center in the Installing and Launching chapter Configuring Power Center 138 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 F 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 For more information on Power Center services see Power Center Services in the Installing and Launching chapter For more information on how to start or stop Power Center services see your Windows Help Power Center Data Power Center data is defined as the following three categories Table 17 1 Power Center Data Category Files Description Configuration files app config xml user config xml web config xml server xml login conf krb5 conf java security Key store file keystore ssl Database data file pgdata This is a folder Power Center utilizes PostgreSQL to store data Pgdata is a standard PostgreSQL data folder Backup and Recovery 139
132. to use the Power Center management console to discover a device from the network Before adding a device from the network make sure the DNS server is set up correctly Specifically make sure that There is a DNS server running on the Power Center s network The specified DNS server has a reverse DNS zone for the network on which you are trying to discover the devices Device Discovery 52 F 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 ifthe 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 Goto the Discovery page 2 Enter the IP address range or select one in the list If the correct range is not displayed add it using the following steps 3 Click Add IP Range and enter information in the following fields Beginning The beginning IP address For example 192 168 1 1 End The end IP address For example 192 168 1 255 Network Mask The network mask For example 255 255 255 0 4 Click Apply The new IP range is added to the list of IP ranges and displayed at top of the page 5 Select at least one IP Range and click Next F NOTE The IP Ranges section lists not only the IP ranges that you have added but also the IP ranges of
133. tus Select the status of the policy The status can be Enabled Disabled and Active Inactive You can select multiple options Click Apply The Policies page displays the filtered policies Emergency Power Reduction When there is an emergency situation for example if there is a power failure and the devices are running on the UPS you can initiate Emergency Power Reduction to set the power consumption to minimal A WARNING Applying emergency power reduction will throttle power on the devices down to an extremely low level which will impact performance All the devices with Monitor amp Capping power capability are impacted Use this only in an emergency situation To initiate an emergency power reduction 1 Go to Power Overview Physical Logical Groups 2 Click the icon of the device group and go to the Policies tab 3 Click Emergency Power Reduction in the upper right corner Power Policies 104 4 Inthe Emergency Power Reduction window read the message and click Continue All of the devices with the Monitor amp 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 To cancel emergency power reductions 1 Inthe upper right corner of any page click Emergency
134. ucture for Power Center monitoring of your data center After you set up your data center for monitoring you can refer to use case 6 7 or 8 to use Power Center for monitoring comparing power and temperature data between devices and or time slots and creating policies If you are an experienced user you can refer to any use case for a quick reference on how to complete tasks 1 Installing Power Center 2 Logging into Power Center 3 Adding a device from the network 4 Managing devices Getting Started 18 on Oo a Creating the data center group structure Monitoring power temperature events of a device or group Creating power policies 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 Click OpenManagePowerCenterexe to start installation See Installing Power Center in the Installing and Launching chapter Use Case 2 Logging into Power Center This use case describes how to launch and log into Power Center 1 2 5 Open your Web browser You may need to configure your Web browser to launch the Power Center management console See Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer in the Installing and Launching chapter Enter the Power Center management console address https lt Server_Name gt lt HTTPS_Po
135. untries Novell is a registered trademark and SUSE is a trademark of Novell Inc in the United States and other countries Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and or its affiliates Citrix Xen XenServer and XenMotion are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Citrix in the United States and or other countries VMware Virtual SMP vMotion vCenter and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMWare Inc in the United States or other countries Other trademarks and trade names may be used in this document to refer to either the entities claiming the marks and names or their products Dell Inc disclaims any proprietary interest in trademarks and trade names other than its own February 2012 Contents 1 Overview oaoa aaa 11 Features SS 11 Topology 12 System Requirements 13 Hardware Requirements for Server System 13 Software Requirements for Server System 13 Hardware and Software Requirements for Devices 14 Supported Devices 14 2 Getting Started 16 Management Console Introduction 16 Use Case Introduction 18 Use Case 1 Installing Power Center 19 Use Case 2 Logging into Power Center 19 Use Case 3 Adding a Device from the Network 19 Use Case 4 Managing Devices 20 Use Case 5 Cre
136. ut Events related to power output failure in the Critical UPS UPS Overload Events related to output power load limits Critical and exceeded thresholds in the UPS UPS On Bypass Events related to on bypass in the UPS Informative UPS Bad Bypass Events related to bypass failure in the UPS Critical UPS Shutdown Events related to UPS shutdown Informative UPS Charge Events related to charge failure in the UPS Critical Failure UPS Fan Failure Events related to power fan failure in the Critical UPS UPS Events related to communication lost in the Warning Communication UPS Lost Protocol Timeout Protocol timeout change has failed Warning Change Failed PDU High Load The PDU power is greater than the high load Warning threshold PDU Low Load The PDU power is lower than the low load Warning threshold PDU Overload The PDU is overloaded Critical PDU Outlet High The PDU outlet power is greater than the Warning Load high load threshold PDU Outlet Low The PDU outlet power is lower than the low Warning Load load threshold PDU Outlet The PDU outlet is overloaded Critical Overload Event Management Table 14 1 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 The server capabilities have changed for Warning Capabilities example a license change Changed NOTE The Server Capabilities Changed event is
137. ve the device If you move a device associated to a physical group click an active link to select another group 3 Click Move The devices are moved to the selected rack or group Moving a Physical Group You can move a physical group and update the group structure so that it is similar to the actual data center device structure when a physical group is moved physically in the data center The Physical Group can be a room an aisle or a rack You must move the physical group according to the following physical group structure Data Center Room Aisle Rack To move a physical group Physical Groups 71 1 Click Move 2 The Move Physical Group window displays the physical group structure of 3 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 Click Move The physical group is moved to the selected group Editing Physical Groups After you have created a physical group you can edit the group information to update it To edit the group information of a physical group 1 Go to Group Management Physical Groups and click Select a Physical Group then click the icons to select a group Click Edit Edit the Name and Description for the group Click Apply Deleting Physical Groups To delete a physical group 1
138. vent Severity Levels in the Event Management chapter Dashboards Power dashboard and temperature dashboard Power Details Power graphic and energy consumption summary Temperature Details Temperature graphic and details summary Policies The policies created for the physical group and their status Thresholds Power thresholds and temperature thresholds Rack The information of the devices in the rack This tab appears when you view information at the Rack level Chassis The information of the devices in the chassis This tab appears when you view information at the Chassis level For more information on dashboards power details temperature details policies and thresholds see the Power Monitoring and Temperature Monitoring chapters Physical Groups 73 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 Click Add New Logical Group Enter a Name and Description for the logical group You can create multiple groups at once if you click Add New Logical Group Click Duplicate Group and enter the Number of the groups to create Power Ce
139. vice 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 3 Select the group or device that you are looking for 4 The page displays the selected group at the right and displays the corresponding Power Overview or Group Management page of the selected group Group Management 66 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 Data Center Physical Group Power Center manages physical groups with the following group structure Data Center Room Aisle gt Rack gt Chassis You must create physical groups in this order PDU UPS and unsupported devices can be attached at any level of the physical group structure You can find the PDU and UPS devices information at the bottom of the group s page You can manually create physical groups then add
140. vices to the physical groups Arack server can only be added to a rack Ablade server can only be discovered in a chassis PDU UPS and unsupported devices can be attached at any level of the physical group structure See Adding Devices to a Physical Group in the Physical Groups chapter Getting Started 20 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 Goto 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 The Temperature Details tab shows the temperature details for the device group See the Temperature Monitoring chapter The Events tab shows the events for the device group See the Event Management chapter Use Case 7 Creating Power Policies This use case describes how to create a power policy Power policies allow you to cap power consumption and set priorities for the policies so that you can save power for your data center 1 Go to the Power Overview page and select a device or group 2 Click Policies tab and create a policy for this device group See Creating a Policy in the Power Policies chapter 3 You can view policies for this device group in this Policies tab You can also go to the P
141. wer Center services to use normal user A to log onto service When system notifies The account M has been granted the Log On As A Service right press OK to confirm Security 121 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 Service Pack and Hotfix Settings Install all critical or important service packs and hot fixes Hor Windows 2003 use version SP2 or above Account Policy Settings For Windows 2003 Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Vista Use minimum password length Use maximum password age For Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Vista Apply all the account policies in the Center for Internet Security CIS 2008 and Windows 7 Vista hardening benchmark User Rights Settings Apply all the user rights hardening requirements for Windows 2003 Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Vista of CIS benchmark Security Options Settings Apply all the security option hardening requirements for Windows 2003 Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Vista of CIS benchmark includes the requirements for domain controller File and Registry Permission Settings Apply the har

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