HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................9
Overview...............................................................................................................................................9
2 Key concepts...........................................................................................11
Data centers, racks, and power delivery devices.......................................................................................11
Data centers....................................................................................................................................11
Racks.............................................................................................................................................11
Power delivery devices......................................................................................................................11
Power Topology....................................................................................................................................11
Power delivery hierarchy...................................................................................................................12
Power Summary meter......................................................................................................................13
Power Status Alerts...........................................................................................................................14
Data Center Power Control.....................................................................................................................14
Security properties................................................................................................................................15
Protocols and ports numbers..............................................................................................................15
Configuration for PDR/PDU monitoring via SNMP ...............................................................................15
Configuration for PDU Monitoring via SSL...........................................................................................15
Use of management LAN..................................................................................................................16
Security properties for Data Center Power Control................................................................................16
Power Regulator....................................................................................................................................17
HP Power Regulator for ProLiant.........................................................................................................17
HP Power Regulator for Integrity.........................................................................................................17
Understanding HP Power Regulator savings.........................................................................................18
Power Capping.....................................................................................................................................20
Power Capping and Dynamic Power Capping.....................................................................................20
Enclosure Dynamic Power Capping....................................................................................................20
3 Basic procedures......................................................................................21
Getting started.....................................................................................................................................21
Licensing power management systems.....................................................................................................22
Licensing power management managed systems..................................................................................23
Using power management with Systems Insight Manager...........................................................................23
Configuring power management options..................................................................................................24
Opening the Power/Thermal Analysis view...............................................................................................26
Understanding the Power/Thermal Analysis view.......................................................................................26
Physical Location.............................................................................................................................27
Power Delivery................................................................................................................................27
Available Power...............................................................................................................................27
Understanding/Using the Physical Location..............................................................................................28
Understanding the Define Rack page.......................................................................................................28
Defining a rack.....................................................................................................................................29
Defining a data center...........................................................................................................................30
Defining a power delivery device............................................................................................................30
Defining a undiscoverable system............................................................................................................31
Describing Power Delivery Hierarchy........................................................................................................32
Finding available capacity in racks and power delivery devices..................................................................33
Ensuring the sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center................................................33
Visualizing the layout of systems or devices in racks ..................................................................................33
Generating reports and graphs...............................................................................................................34
Changing the time scale...................................................................................................................34
Refreshing the graph data.................................................................................................................34
Printing the graph ...........................................................................................................................35
Displaying the previous page of data.................................................................................................35
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