Owner's Manual

122 Power Monitoring
• For Dell Management Console, the rollup health is always a worst case
rollup — so any critical status on the device will always turn the global
health, that is, group view and the monitor pie chart to critical.
For example, if one of the power supply is removed from the server. In
OpenManage Server Administrator, the overall health status is displayed as
warning, power redundancy status is also displayed as warning and the
power supply is shown as critical. The correct events (matching with
OpenManage Server Administrator status) are displayed as warning even
in the Resource Manager. However, Dell Management Console server's
health status is displayed as critical (color red) in the
Monitored Resource
by Status
pie chart.
Power Monitoring Related Notes
• The Performance viewer currently provides real time power consumption
for only one server; however, to view power consumption for multiple
servers, you must see the reports.
• You cannot use Power Monitoring when you are managing more than 500
nodes. To manage up to 500 nodes, you must have the following system
requirements for the Dell Management Console management station:
• Supported Operating systems, for example, Microsoft® Windows
Server® 2003 R2 SP2 (32-bit) — Standard or Enterprise Edition
• Physical Processors — Two
• RAM — 4 GB
•DVD Drive
• Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 or 3.5 SP1
• Windows Internet Information Services version 6.0
• Microsoft SQL Express 2005 or SQL Express 2008, SQL Server 2005
or SQL Server 2008 (64-bit Remote)
• A remote database and at least 8GB memory available for larger
environments.
• When you inventory a device discovered using the WMI protocol, in the
hardware Summary page, in the Power supply information table, the Power
Supply Type does not contain any value.
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