HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 9)

2 Key concepts
Data centers, racks, and power delivery devices
Data centers
HP Insight Control power management enables you to define the data center physical topology with racks
containing systems, enclosures, and devices. A data center is an arbitrary rectangular grid that allows you
to specify the placement of racks. You may create data centers to describe a lab floor or a portion of a
computer room – that provides a useful grouping to summarize your environment and its power and thermal
requirements. Insight Control power management provides ease of managing, monitoring, and positioning
the racks in a data center.
Data Centers are displayed in the Systems Insight Manager System and Events Collections pane in the
collection named All Data Centers. By convention, power management shows racks running from West-to-East
with North displayed to the top of the screen.
Racks
HP Insight Control power management enables you to define/create a rack to mount enclosures, systems,
and other unmanaged devices, and provide power delivery topology, redundant and uninterruptible power
supply to the devices in it. Insight Control power management also enables you to describe and summarize
unmanageable system or power delivery devices.
Power delivery devices
HP Insight Control power management enables you to create the power distribution device objects, to
describe the power source for one or more components in the rack. Define Power Delivery Device should
only be used to describe power delivery devices that cannot be discovered by Systems Insight Manager.
For intelligent PDR/PDU or power meter devices, the power properties are configured during discovery
through Systems Insight Manager. Do not use this dialog to create a Power Delivery Device that has a
discoverable network accessible management module.
The power delivery devices are displayed in the Systems Insight Manager System and Events Collections
pane in the collection named All Power Delivery Devices.
Power Topology
A typical power network topology in a data center includes power feed, PDRs, PDUs, racks, enclosures, and
servers. The following figure illustrates a typical power network topology.
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