Task: defining rules to reduce power consumption, Task: defining rules for external events, Task: delegating rule authorization for operators – HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual
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Chapter 17 Collections in
HP Systems Insight Manager in HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide available at
Task: Defining rules to reduce power consumption
HP Insight Control power management supplies pre-defined rules for reducing power consumption through
the Data Center Power Control facility. To create rules specific to your environment, start with one of the
pre-defined rules, customize it for your environment, and then mark it as "Ready for Use". For more information
on defining rules, see
Defining and managing rules using Data Center Power Control
.
Task: Defining rules for external events
Data Center Power Control rules can be invoked manually or automatically using the mxexec command to
respond to external events.
To invoke a rule manually, use the mxexec command. For more information on mxexec command, see
mxexec
command in
HP Systems Insight Manager Command Line Interface Reference Guide available at
.
To start a rule automatically, invoke the mxexec command to define a custom CMS tool that would run the
rule. For information on creating the custom CMS tools, see
Chapter 19 Systems Insight Manager custom
tools in HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide available at
. The custom CMS tools for invoking Data Center Power Control
rules must have the following settings:
•
The maximum number of targets the tool can select when creating the task is None. Targets are selected
by the filters in the rule definition.
•
Command with parameters: mxexec -t DCPC -A rule-ID
You can view the rule-ID for a rule in the rule list on the Data Center Power Control Rules page.
After the custom CMS tool is created, you can launch it automatically when an event occurs with Automatic
Event Handling
facility of Systems Insight Manager. for more information, see
Chapter 7 Automatic event
handling in HP Systems Insight Manager User Guide. You can also configure this as a scheduled task with
Scheduled Tasks
facility of Systems Insight Manager. For information on managing tasks, see
HP Systems
Insight Manager User Guide.
Task: Delegating rule authorization for operators
You can authorize users, who perform the role of an operator, to run certain required rules using the Data
Center Power Control facility.
To authorize an operator to run a rule, perform the following:
1.
From the New Rule or Edit Rule section of the Data Center Power Control Rules page, click Permissions.
The Permissions section appears at the bottom of the New Rule or Edit Rule section of the Data Center
Power Control Rules page.
2.
Select the operator name from the Other users column and click to move it into the Users with explicit
permission to run the rule
column to add permission to the user for this rule. You can also include
permission for more than one user for a rule.
3.
Click Save Permissions to save the changes. The operator is authorised to run the required rules.
For more information on deleting user permissions, see
Adding/Deleting user permissions
.
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