Dell OpenManage Power Center Version 1.0 User Manual

Dell OpenManage

Power Center

Version 1.0

User Guide

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1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Topology

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System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Hardware Requirements for Server System

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Software Requirements for Server System . . . . 13

Hardware and Software Requirements for Devices

Supported Devices

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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

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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

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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

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

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.

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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.

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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.

Installing Power Center

Logging into Power Center

Adding a device from the network

Managing devices

Getting Started 18

Creating the data center group structure

Monitoring power/temperature/events of a device or group

Creating power policies

Comparing two or more devices/groups

Use Case 1: Installing Power Center

This use case describes how to install Power Center.

Make sure the system meets the software and hardware requirements.

See "System Requirements" in the "Overview" chapter.

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.

Open your Web browser.

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.

Enter the Power Center management console address:

https://

<Server_Name>:<HTTPS_Port>

See "Launching Power Center" in the "Installing and Launching" chapter.

Select a user account and enter your user name and password.

See "Logging in" in the "Access Control" chapter.

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.

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Go to the

Configure the search criteria for the devices you want to discover.

See "Adding a Device from the Network" in the "Device Discovery" chapter.

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.

Go to the delete/edit/filter them.

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.

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

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.

Go to the monitor.

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

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.

Go to the

Click

See "Creating a Policy" in the "Power Policies" chapter.

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.

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Go to the

Select two or three devices or groups to compare.

Compare

page.

See "Adding a Device or Group" in the "Comparing" chapter.

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.

Optionally, click

to print the comparison results. You may need to

configure your Web browser before printing.

See "Printing the Comparison Result" in the "Comparing" chapter.

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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:

Double-click the file

In the installation wizard home page, click

In the

License Agreement

accept ...

In the

In the or browse to your desired installation path. Click

.Click

License

Destination Folder

OpenManagePowerCenter.exe

screen, read the license agreement and select

page, read the license message. Click

screen, either leave the default installation path

NOTE: The installation path only supports ANSI characters (English characters,

numbers, and simple symbols). Do not use an installation path with non-ANSI characters.

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

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

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

Must be unique for each Power Center user.

Can be up to 20 uppercase or lowercase printable characters except " /

—

\ [ ] : ; | = , + * ? < > . @.

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

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

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

In the

Ready to Install the Program

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:

Go to

Start → Control Panel → Add/Remove Programs

From the Add/Remove Programs dialog, select

Mitigation, and Management

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:

Go to

Control Panel → System and Security → Administrative Tools →

Server Manager

In the

Server Summary → Security Information

IE ESC

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:

Go to

Control Panel → Add or Remove Programs → Add/Remove

Windows Components

Uncheck the

Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration

box.

Click

, and then click

Finish

To trust the Power Center site/links:

Go to

Internet Explorer → Tools → Internet Options → Security

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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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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