HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 4)

Displaying the next page of data.......................................................................................................35
Configuring/Changing HP Power Regulator and Power Cap settings............................................................35
Configuring and scheduling alerts...........................................................................................................38
Requirements for receiving alerts........................................................................................................38
Configuring and scheduling alerts......................................................................................................38
Downloading historical data in CSV format..............................................................................................39
Opening the Data Center Power Control Rules page..................................................................................40
Defining and managing rules using Data Center Power Control...................................................................40
Simulating the rule...........................................................................................................................46
Stopping a Running Rule...................................................................................................................46
Viewing rule simulation/execution results..................................................................................................46
Enabling system shutdown through Data Center Power Control....................................................................47
Accessing power management using web services interface.......................................................................48
4 Managing power and cooling facilities in your data center............................49
Task: Importing power configuration from external databases.....................................................................49
Importing from Excel worksheets .......................................................................................................49
Task: Monitoring the power and cooling requirements of your IT equipment..................................................50
Step 1: Identifying/Discovering your IT systems....................................................................................50
Step 2: Understanding the operational range of individual IT systems .....................................................50
Step 3: Finding thermal hot-spots in your data center ...........................................................................51
Step 4: Finding available capacity on power delivery devices ...............................................................51
Task: Ensuring the sufficient availability of power and cooling for your data center........................................52
Task: Protecting your power and cooling infrastructure...............................................................................52
Task: Getting notified of unexpected or excessive power consumption..........................................................53
Task: Validating delivery of redundant power to systems ............................................................................54
Task: Determining trapped capacity in your data center.............................................................................54
Task: Reclaiming power/thermal capacity for a new system........................................................................55
Task: Classifying systems by business criticality.........................................................................................56
Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption ....................................................................................57
Task: Defining rules for external events.....................................................................................................57
Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators ......................................................................................57
Support and other resources.........................................................................59
Information to collect before contacting HP...............................................................................................59
How to contact HP................................................................................................................................59
Registering for software technical support and update service.....................................................................59
How to use your software technical support and update service.............................................................59
Warranty information.......................................................................................................................59
HP authorized resellers...........................................................................................................................60
Documentation feedback........................................................................................................................60
New and changed information in this edition...........................................................................................60
Related information...............................................................................................................................60
Typographic conventions........................................................................................................................61
A Command reference.................................................................................63
Power Management commands..............................................................................................................63
ipm(1M)...............................................................................................................................................63
ipmexport(1M)......................................................................................................................................66
ipmimport(1M)......................................................................................................................................67
ipmtab2txt(1M).....................................................................................................................................68
ipmtxt2tab(1M).....................................................................................................................................70
ipmvis2txt(1M)......................................................................................................................................71
ipmtxt2vis(1M)......................................................................................................................................73
ipmxml2txt(1M).....................................................................................................................................74
ipmtxt2xml(1M).....................................................................................................................................76
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