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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)

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