Dell OpenManage
Power Center
Version 1.0
User Guide
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Contents
1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Topology
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System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Hardware Requirements for Server System
. . . . 13
Software Requirements for Server System . . . . 13
Hardware and Software Requirements for Devices
Supported Devices
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14
2 Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Management Console Introduction . . . . . . . . . . 16
Use Case Introduction
Use Case 1: Installing Power Center
Use Case 2: Logging into Power Center
Use Case 3: Adding a Device from the Network
Use Case 4: Managing Devices
Use Case 5: Creating the Data Center Group Structure 20
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Use Case 6: Monitoring Power / Temperature /
Events of a Device or Group
Use Case 7: Creating Power Policies
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Contents 3
Use Case 8: Comparing Two or More Devices/Groups . 21
3 Installing and Launching . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installing Power Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Installed Directories
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Power Center Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Uninstalling Power Center
Launching Power Center
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Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer . . . . . . . . . 28
4 Access Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
About Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Logging in
Logging out
Managing User Roles
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About Login
Log in with User Name and Password
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Log in with Single Sign-on (SSO) . . . . . . . . . 35
Multiple User Login
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Adding a Role
Updating a Role
Deleting a Role
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Managing User Accounts
Adding a User
Updating a User
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Contents 4
Deleting a User. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
Managing Privileges
Global Configuration
Device Discovery
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Manage Role/User . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
View Device/Group
Manage Device/Group
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Manage Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Manage Event
Manage License
Viewing Current User Information
Licensing
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Importing License
Viewing License
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5 Device Discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Supported Devices and Unsupported Devices. . . . . 51
Adding a Device from the Network
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Adding a Device Manually
Rediscovering Devices in a Chassis
Protocol Profile
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6 Device Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Viewing Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Editing Devices
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Contents 5
Editing Protocol . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Deleting Devices
Filtering Devices
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Sorting Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
7 Group Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Mapping Group Structure Information. . . . . . . . . 64
Finding a Group or Device
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8 Physical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Data Center Physical Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Creating Physical Group
Managing Physical Groups
Adding Devices to a Physical Group
Editing Devices in a Physical Group
Removing Devices from a Physical Group . . . . 70
Moving Devices in a Physical Group
Moving a Physical Group
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Editing Physical Groups
Deleting Physical Groups
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Viewing Physical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
9 Logical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Creating a Logical Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Contents 6
Managing Logical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Adding a Logical Group
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Adding Devices or Groups to a Logical Group . . 75
Editing Logical Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
Deleting Logical Groups
Viewing Logical Groups
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10 Power Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Power Monitoring Level. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Power Monitoring Configuration
Viewing Power Details
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Viewing Energy Consumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Monitoring PDU Power
Monitoring UPS Power
Power Dashboard
Printing Power Monitoring/Dashboard Graph
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11 Temperature Monitoring . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Temperature Monitoring Level . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Temperature Monitoring Configuration
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Viewing Temperature Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Monitoring Temperature of Chassis/Blade Server
. . . 92
Contents 7
Monitoring Temperature of Devices/Groups. . . . . . 92
Temperature Dashboard
Printing Temperature Monitoring/Dashboard Graph
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12 Power Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
How Does a Dynamic Power Policy Work? . . . . . . 96
Power Policy Capabilities
Upgrading Device Power Policy Capability
Creating a Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Viewing Policy Details
Policy Priority Levels
Policy Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Enabling/Disabling Policy
Displaying Policies in the Power Details Graph
Updating a Policy
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Deleting Policies
Filtering Policies
Emergency Power Reduction
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Policy-Related Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
13 Comparing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Changing the Time Period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Contents 8
Adding a Device or Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Removing/Changing Device or Group
Printing the Comparison Result
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14 Event Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Pre-defined Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Custom Events
Supported PDU/UPS Events
Event Severity Levels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Viewing Events
Sorting Events
Editing Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
Deleting Events
Filtering Events
Filtering Events by Group/Device
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Sending Test Events from an IPMI Device
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15 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Starting Services with a Normal Windows OS User Account 120
OS Hardening
Audit Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Managing Certificates
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Contents 9
16 Configuring Power Center . . . . . . . . . . 126
Monitoring Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
Default Units Settings
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Protocol Type Device Timeout Settings . . . . . . . . 128
Energy Consumption Settings
SNMP Traps Settings
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Database Policy Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Installation Settings
Database Settings
Kerberos Realm Settings
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Power Center Server's Domain Account for Kerberos SSO 138
17 Backup and Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Power Center Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Power Center Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
Power Center Recovery
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18 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
Contents 10
1
Overview
Dell OpenManage Power Center is a power management solution for the data
center. It enables you to monitor and manage power consumption and
temperature in your data center through the management console.
Features
The following table lists the features provided by OpenManage Power Center.
Table 1-1. Product Features
Feature Description
Power Monitoring Monitors power related metrics on several levels:
• Individual device
• Data center/Room/Aisle/Rack/Chassis
• User-defined group
Temperature Monitoring Monitors data center temperature data.
Power Control Creates policies that can control the data center power
consumption at the device and group level.
Device Discovery Supports Dell enterprise systems including PowerEdge
blade and tower/rack servers, chassis, and many different
PDUs and UPS.
Role-based Access Control Supports user authentication and multiple role-based
privilege levels.
Event Management Monitor and manage device/group events.
Overview 11
Topology
The following figure shows how to use a Web browser to access the Power
Center server and manage the data center.
Overview 12
System Requirements
Hardware Requirements for Server System
You must install Power Center on a system with at least:
• A dual-core processor of 2.6Ghz or higher
•4GB RAM
• 60GB free space of hard drive
• Gigabit bandwidth of network infrastructure
Software Requirements for Server System
Power Center supports the following operating systems:
•
Microsoft
(x86, x64)
•
Microsoft
(x86, x64)
•
Microsoft
•
Microsoft
•
Microsoft
•
Microsoft
Power Center supports the following Web browsers:
• Mozilla Firefox 5.0 and 6.0
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0, 8.0 and 9.0
Power Center is validated to work with the following virtualization
environment:
•VMware ESX (3.5/4.0)
• Microsoft Server 2008 Hyper-V
The Power Center installation includes the following major software tools:
• Sun Microsystems Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6
• Apache Tomcat application server
• PostgreSQL 8.3.5
Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise/Small Business Server
Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise/Small Business Server R2
Windows 2008 Standard/Enterprise/Datacenter (x86, x64)
Windows 2008 R2
Windows 7
Windows Vista (x86, x64)
SP2
Overview 13
Hardware and Software Requirements for Devices
Power Center defines the following hardware and software requirements for
supported devices:
• The server device must comply with Dell iDRAC6/iDRAC7.
• Power Distribution Unit (PDU) or Uninterruptable Power Supply (UPS)
devices comply with the Management Information Base (MIB) provided
by their vendor through SNMP interface.
• The device must provide exclusive access for Power Center. This is because
the policies set on the devices from other management software will
impact the Power Center power control function.
• The Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) user, through which Power
Center communicates with devices, must be a local user with
Administrator role. The device must be configured to allow the
Administrator to use at least one of the cipher suite levels 0-3, and enable
the "IPMI over LAN" setting.
• The WS-MAN user, through which Power Center communicates with the
chassis, must be a local user with Administrator role. The chassis must be
configured to enable the "Web Server" service.
Supported Devices
Power Center supports up to 2000 managed devices in one data center.
The following devices are validated and supported by Power Center:
Table 1-2. Supported Devices
Category Supported
Platform
Server Dell
Chassis Dell
Validated Model
• Dell PowerEdge R610 Rack Server
• Dell PowerEdge R620 Rack Server
• Dell PowerEdge R710 Rack Server
• Dell PowerEdge R720 Rack Server
• Dell PowerEdge M610 Blade Server
• Dell PowerEdge M620 Blade Server
• Dell PowerEdge T620 Tower Server
• Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Enclosure
Overview 14
Table 1-2. Supported Devices
Category Supported
Platform
PDU Dell
APC
Eaton
Emerson
ServerTech
UPS Dell
APC
Eaton
Emerson
Validated Model
• Dell 6804 Metered PDU
• Dell 6607 Metered PDU
• Dell XX5T6 Metered PDU
• Dell 6803 Metered PDU
• Dell 6605 PDU
• APC Metered Rack PDU AP78001
• APC Switched Rack PDU AP7900
• APC Switched Rack PDU AP7920
• Eaton Monitored PDU PW312MI0UC07
• Eaton Switched PDU PW105SW0U154
• Emerson Liebert MPH MPH-NCR09NXXE30
• ServerTech Switched PDU CW-24V4J411
• ServerTech Smart CDU, 0U CS-24V1-C20M
• Dell N313P Line interactive UPS w/ web card H910P
• Dell Online Rack UPS 3750R OL K804N
• Dell UPS, 2700/2300VA, 120V, 3U K802N
• APC Online UPS w/ Web card SURTD3000XLI
• APC Smart-UPS 3000VA RM SUA3000RM2U
• Smart-UPS 5000VA RM DL5000RMT5U
• Eaton Line interactive UPS w/ Web card
PW5130I1750-XL2U
• Emerson Online UPS w/ Web card GXT2-2700RT208
Overview 15
2
Getting Started
This chapter introduces the Power Center management console and presents
several use cases that describe standard usages of Power Center.
Management Console Introduction
To use the Power Center functions, you must open a Web browser and log
into Power Center.
After you log into Power Center, the management console opens with a list of
the available pages in the left navigation pane, and the currently-open page
appearing in the right pane.
Getting Started 16
Table 2-1. Available Actions
Main Page Available Actions on This Page
Getting Started This page introduces the Dell OpenManage Power
Center features and the initial setup steps, and lists
additional tasks you can complete after the setup. You
can select a video from the video liberary to help you get
started, or you can click help links to get additional
information.
Power Overview This page enables you to view or edit data center power
information of a physical group or logical group, and
view the information of devices in a rack or chassis. This
page includes these tabs:
Events, Dashboards, Power Details, Temperature
Details, Policies, Thresholds.
Group Management This page enables you to set up and organize your
devices into physical or logical groups.
Discovery This page discovers supported devices in the data center
network. After a device is discovered, it is automatically
added to the Device List page, and can be managed by
Power Center. From this page, you can:
• View the active searches
• View the recent discovery jobs
• Rerun a search using the discovery search criteria
Device List This page lists network-discovered devices and devices
added manually. From this page, you can:
• Add supported or unsupported devices to the Device
List page
• Remove devices from the Device List page
• Edit device information for a single device or multiple
devices
• Edit protocol information for a single device
• Filter and sort devices to meet current needs
Policies This page enables you to manage the power policies.
Getting Started 17
Table 2-1. Available Actions
Main Page Available Actions on This Page
Compare This page enables you to compare power and
temperature status and energy consumption between
the selected groups/devices. You can also print the
comparison results.
Settings → Settings This page enables you to view or configure all the
settings.
Settings → User
Accounts
Settings → Licensing This page enables you to view or import the license.
Event Logs This page lists all events at all severity levels.
This page enables you to set up and manage the user
accounts.
From this page, you can:
• View all events
• Add comments to events
• Delete the events
•Filter and sort the events
Use Case Introduction
This section provides several standard usage scenarios to help you get started
with Power Center, or refresh your knowledge of Power Center functionality.
If you are a first-time user, you can follow the sequence of use cases 1- 5 to
install and set up the group structure for Power Center monitoring of your
data center. After you set up your data center for monitoring, you can refer to
use case 6, 7 or 8 to use Power Center for monitoring, comparing power and
temperature data between devices and/or time slots, and creating policies.
If you are an experienced user, you can refer to any use case for a quick
reference on how to complete tasks.
1
Installing Power Center
2
Logging into Power Center
3
Adding a device from the network
4
Managing devices
Getting Started 18
5
Creating the data center group structure
6
Monitoring power/temperature/events of a device or group
7
Creating power policies
8
Comparing two or more devices/groups
Use Case 1: Installing Power Center
This use case describes how to install Power Center.
1
Make sure the system meets the software and hardware requirements.
See "System Requirements" in the "Overview" chapter.
2
Click OpenManagePowerCenter.exe to start installation.
See "Installing Power Center" in the "Installing and Launching" chapter.
Use Case 2: Logging into Power Center
This use case describes how to launch and log into Power Center.
1
Open your Web browser.
2
You may need to configure your Web browser to launch the Power Center
management console.
See "Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer" in the "Installing and
Launching" chapter.
3
Enter the Power Center management console address:
https://
<Server_Name>:<HTTPS_Port>
See "Launching Power Center" in the "Installing and Launching" chapter.
4
Select a user account and enter your user name and password.
See "Logging in" in the "Access Control" chapter.
5
The Power Center management console appears. You can start to use
Power Center functions.
/powercenter/
Use Case 3: Adding a Device from the Network
This use case describes how to discover devices from the network of your data
center.
Getting Started 19
1
Go to the
2
Configure the search criteria for the devices you want to discover.
See "Adding a Device from the Network" in the "Device Discovery"
chapter.
3
The discovered devices appear in the
Discovery
page to add devices from the network.
Device List
page.
Use Case 4: Managing Devices
This use case describes how to manage devices after they are discovered.
1
Go to the
delete/edit/filter them.
2
Or you can click
then manage it.
See "Adding a Device Manually" in the "Device Discovery" chapter.
Device List
Add
page, select the devices you want to manage, then
in the
Device List
page to add a device manually
Use Case 5: Creating the Data Center Group Structure
This use case describes how to create the data center group structure.
1
Go to the
the physical groups following this order:
→
Rack → Chassis
See "Data Center Physical Group" in the "Physical Groups" chapter.
Group Management
.
page, click
Select a Physical Group
Data Center → Room →
. Create
Aisle
2
Add devices to the physical groups:
• A rack server can only be added to a rack.
• A blade server can only be discovered in a chassis.
• PDU, UPS and unsupported devices can be attached at any level of
the physical group structure.
See "Adding Devices to a Physical Group" in the "Physical Groups" chapter.
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Use Case 6: Monitoring Power / Temperature / Events of a Device or Group
This use case describes how to monitor power/temperature details and events
of a device or group.
1
Go to the
monitor.
2
Check the various tabs:
• The
Power Overview
Power Details
See the "Power Monitoring" chapter.
page, and select the device or group you want to
tab shows the power details for the device/group.
• The
• The
Temperature Details
device/group.
See the "Temperature Monitoring" chapter.
Events
tab shows the events for the device/group.
See the "Event Management" chapter.
tab shows the temperature details for the
Use Case 7: Creating Power Policies
This use case describes how to create a power policy. Power policies allow you
to cap power consumption and set priorities for the policies so that you can
save power for your data center.
1
Go to the
2
Click
See "Creating a Policy" in the "Power Policies" chapter.
3
You can view policies for this device/group in this
go to the
the data center.
Power Overview
Policies
tab, and create a policy for this device/group.
Policies
page, and select a device or group.
Policies
page in the management console to view all policies in
tab. You can also
Use Case 8: Comparing Two or More Devices/Groups
This use case describes how to compare the power/temperature status and the
energy cost for two or three devices/groups.
Getting Started 21
1
Go to the
2
Select two or three devices or groups to compare.
Compare
page.
See "Adding a Device or Group" in the "Comparing" chapter.
3
Set the time frame for comparison. You can use this feature to compare
power/temperature data for the same devices/group in different time
ranges.
See "Changing the Time Period" in the "Comparing" chapter.
4
Optionally, click
Print
to print the comparison results. You may need to
configure your Web browser before printing.
See "Printing the Comparison Result" in the "Comparing" chapter.
Getting Started 22
3
Installing and Launching
This chapter explains how to install, uninstall and launch Power Center. After
Power Center is installed, you may need to change the account for Power
Center services for better security, or you can use a Web browser to launch
the Power Center management console to start using it. You can also uninstall
it when you no longer need it.
Installing Power Center
To install Power Center, you must have Administrator privilege. Otherwise,
the installation may fail.
Before installing Power Center, verify that your system meets the minimum
system requirements. See "System Requirements" in the "Overview" chapter.
Follow these steps to install Power Center:
1
Double-click the file
2
In the installation wizard home page, click
3
In the
License Agreement
accept ...
4
In the
5
In the
or browse to your desired installation path. Click
.Click
License
Destination Folder
OpenManagePowerCenter.exe
Next
.
screen, read the license agreement and select
Next
.
page, read the license message. Click
screen, either leave the default installation path
Next
.
Next
.
I
.
NOTE: The installation path only supports ANSI characters (English characters,
numbers, and simple symbols). Do not use an installation path with non-ANSI
characters.
6
In the
OpenManage Power Center Setting
HTTPS settings:
•HTTPS Port
communication. To select a different port, enter the new port number.
The port number must be a number between 2000 to 9000.
• Keystore Password
used to access the keystore file. After entering the password, in the
Verify Password
—
By default, Power Center uses port 8643 for HTTPS
—
Enter a keystore password. The password will be
field, enter again to confirm.
screen, configure the following
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NOTE: The password must be more than 5 characters, and cannot contain
non-ANSI characters and double quotes (").
• HTTPS Certificate Information — Enter your information for the
HTTPS certificate, including your name, organization, address, state,
country code. The information will be used for certificate
management.
Click
Next
.
7
In the
OpenManage Power Center Setting
screen, continue to enter the
following information for the PostgreSQL database server account:
• Use another database server
—
This option enables you to install the
Power Center database on a remote server. To use this option, the
system must meet the following requirements:
– The remote server must have a running PostgreSQL database service
(v8.3.5). You can download it from
http://www.postgresql.org
– There is no Power Center database on the remote server.
– The database service on the remote server is able to accept remote
database connnection. For more information on this, see "Change to
Database on a Remote System" in the "Configuring Power Center"
chapter.
– The correct connection information (Server Name, Database Port,
Database User Name, Database User Password) is provided.
If you enabled the option to use another database server, enter the
following information about the database service on the remote server:
.
•User Name
• User Password
—
Enter your PostgreSQL database server user name.
—
Enter your PostgreSQL database server user
password.
NOTE: The password must be a minimum of 8 characters in length with
characters from at least three of the following categories: uppercase,
lowercase, numeric, non-alphanumeric. It cannot include spaces.
•Verify password — Enter the password again to confirm.
• PostgreSQL Port
—
Default value is 6443. If another database is
already using the default port, enter a different port.
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• PostgreSQL Data Directory — The location of PostgreSQL data. If
you enabled the option "Use another database server", you do not need
to enter information for this field.
Click
Next
.
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In the
OpenManage Power Center Setting
screen, continue to configure
the Power Center super user account (also called installation account in
the
User Accounts
page) settings, this account is used for logging into the
Power Center management console:
•User Name
—
Enter a name for the super user, or leave the default
name: admin.
•User Name rules
a
Must be unique for each Power Center user.
b
Can be up to 20 uppercase or lowercase printable characters except " /
—
\ [ ] : ; | = , + * ? < > . @.
c
Case insensitive.
•User Password
NOTE: The password must be a minimum of 8 characters in length with
characters from at least three of the following categories: uppercase,
lowercase, numeric, non-alphanumeric, and can include spaces.
— Create the user password for the super user account.
•Verify password — Enter the password again to confirm.
Click
Next
.
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In the
Power Center Setting
screen, continue to configure the Kerberos
settings. These options are optional, you can enable the option and
configure the following settings to support SSO. For more information on
SSO, see "Single Sign-on" in the "Access Control" chapter, or you can click
Next
to skip this step.
•Realm Name
—
Enter the Realm name (domain name) of KDC
server.
•KDC Server
—
Enter the address of KDC server, it can be either an IP
address or a server name.
• Kerberos Pre-authentication User Name
— Enter the user name for
the Kerberos pre-authentication account.
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NOTE: User names with Chinese characters are not supported due to the
limitation of Java Kerberos related library implementation.
• Kerberos Pre-authentication User Password —
the Kerberos pre-authentication account.
Click
Next
.
10
In the
Ready to Install the Program
11
After installation completes, click
screen, click
Finish
to exit the installation wizard.
Enter the password for
Install
.
Installed Directories
By default, the Power Center package installs to: C:\Program
Files\Dell\OpenManagePowerCenter.
NOTE: You cannot install Power Center to the root folders of Windows volume. You
must select a none-root folder or another volume to install.
The Power Center package includes the following folders:
Table 3-1. Installed Directories
Directory Description
bin Power Center binaries
conf Power Center configuration files
external Other applications installed by Power Center
Logs Power Center event logs
Pgdata (default) Database files
To protect your data, the following files are accessible only to Network Service
or Administrator users:
• OpenManagePowerCenter\conf\app.config.xml
• OpenManagePowerCenter\external\apache-tomcat\conf\server.xml
Power Center Services
Power Center includes the following services:
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• Dell OpenManage Power Center — Apache Tomcat server
accommodating the Power Center web application which passes action
requests to the Power Center server.
• Dell OpenManage Power Center Database Server
—
The PostgreSQL
internal database for Power Center.
• Dell OpenManage Power Center SNMP Dispatcher
—
If Windows SNMP
Trap service is installed, it reroutes SNMP traps to Dell OpenManage
Power Center Server service. If Windows SNMP Trap service is not
installed, this service will automatically stop.
NOTE: If Windows SNMP Trap service is installed, make sure it is not
disabled, otherwise Power Center cannot function properly.
• Dell OpenManage Power Center Server — The Power Center server core
service. It carries out all actions, including communication with devices.
To stop or start a service, select the appropriate service from the Windows
Services list and select the action to perform.
Power Center uses Network Service account to start all the services. You can
change to a normal Windows OS user account for security purpose. For more
information on how to change the account, see "Starting Services with a
Normal Windows OS User Account" in the "Security" chapter.
Uninstalling Power Center
NOTE: After uninstalling Power Center, the existing power cap value set in the
policies (including EPR) still remain effective on the devices. To avoid impacts to the
devices, remove all devices from the Power Center management console before
uninstalling Power Center. Make sure to check your data center power capacity
before removing the devices to avoid tripping the breaker because the policies will
be removed at the same time.
To uninstall Power Center:
1
Go to
Start → Control Panel → Add/Remove Programs
2
From the Add/Remove Programs dialog, select
Mitigation, and Management
3
Click
Yes
to confirm. Follow the on-screen instructions.
, and click
Dell Power Measurement,
Remove
.
.
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If you did not check the option "Use another database server" during the
installation, the uninstall program removes the Power Center database and
configurations.
If you checked the option "Use another database server" and used another
database during the installation, the uninstall program does not uninstall the
database.
Launching Power Center
To launch the Power Center management console, enter the following
address in lower case in your Web browser:
https://<Server_Name>:<HTTPS_Port>/powercenter/.
For example: https://localhost:8643/powercenter/.
NOTE: For Windows 2003, if you reinstall Power Center on the same server using a
different HTTPS port, you must log off Windows OS then log in once to make sure
the new HTTPS port takes effect.
NOTE: Power Center only supports screen resolutions of 1024*768 pixels or higher.
Make sure you have correctly set the screen resolution on your system before
launching the Power Center management console.
Configuring ESC for Internet Explorer
If the Power Center server uses Windows 2003 Server or Windows 2008 OS,
and the Web browser is Internet Explorer 8 or version above, by default, the
system has the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration (ESC)
feature enabled. To make sure Power Center functions properly in Internet
Explorer, you must either disable this feature or configure Internet Explorer
to trust the Power Center site/links.
To disable this feature in Windows 2008:
1
Go to
Control Panel → System and Security → Administrative Tools →
Server Manager
2
In the
Server Summary → Security Information
IE ESC
3
The
Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration
set enhanced security configuration to
users.
.
section, click
.
Off
for both administrators and
Configure
window opens,
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To disable this feature in Windows 2003 Server:
1
Go to
Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs → Add/Remove
Windows Components
2
Uncheck the
Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration
.
box.
3
Click
Next
, and then click
Finish
.
To trust the Power Center site/links:
1
Go to
Internet Explorer → Tools → Internet Options → Security
2
Click
Trusted Sites
NOTE: You may need to restart Internet Explorer for the configuration to take
effect.
, add
about: Blank
in trusted sites.
check
.
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4
Access Control
This chapter provides information about the access control in Power Center,
including:
• Log in/Log out —
account or by Kerberos Single Sign-On (SSO).
• User/Role/Privilege Management —
manage user accounts in the management console. Power Center
provides role-based access control.
the privileges for each role. After that, you can set up Power Center
accounts and assign them with different roles.
•Licensing
license before the trial license expires.
— Power Center requires a valid license. You must import a
About Authentication
Power Center supports Power Center managed users and Windows users.
For cross-domain authentication, the domains must be two-way transitively
trusted by the domain in which the Power Center server is installed.
For domains that are one-way trusted or not trusted by the domain in which
the Power Center server is installed, the authentication of user accounts in
these domains is not supported and may fail.
You can log into Power Center by entering a user
After you have logged in, you can
You must set up roles first, and define
Logging in
About Login
Power Center supports the following login methods:
• Log in with user name and password — You can use your user account to
log into Power Center. For more information, see "Log in with User Name
and Password" in this chapter.
• Log in using Kerberos Single Sign-On (SSO)
to log in without entering the user name and password if you have already
logged in the Windows domain with your domain account. Power Center
—
This feature enables you
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