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HP ProLiant Power Interface Control (PPIC) Utility
management, control
Part Number: 583301-007
User Guide
for version 2.2.0.0 and later
Abstract
This guide is for HP ProLiant SL customers and firmware installers. This guide describes chassis and rack architecture, power
utilities, and command and options descriptions for select HP ProLiant servers.
September 2013
Edition: 7
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© Copyright 2009, 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. The only warranties for HP products and services are set forth in the express
warranty statements accompanying such products and services. Nothing herein should be construed as constituting an additional warranty. HP shall
not be liable for technical or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
Microsoft® and Windows Server® are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
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Contents
Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 4
HP ProLiant Power Interface Control overview ............................................................................................... 4
Power Management Controller .................................................................................................................... 4
Power capping ............................................................................................................................. 5
Power capping supported servers and chassis ............................................................................................... 5
Power capping requirements ....................................................................................................................... 5
Power Measurement ...................................................................................................................... 6
Power measurement utility .......................................................................................................................... 6
HP ProLiant Power Interface Control Utility ....................................................................................... 7
Installing the utility ..................................................................................................................................... 7
Running the utility ...................................................................................................................................... 7
Command line utility .................................................................................................................................. 7
Synopsis .................................................................................................................................................. 7
Commands ............................................................................................................................................... 8
Help menu ...................................................................................................................................... 8
Display chassis power level and configuration ..................................................................................... 8
Poll chassis power level .................................................................................................................... 8
Verbose ......................................................................................................................................... 8
Calibrate and display power limits .................................................................................................... 9
Set power configuration mode .......................................................................................................... 9
Options.................................................................................................................................................. 10
Select output log filename ............................................................................................................... 10
Configuration examples ........................................................................................................................... 10
Documentation feedback ............................................................................................................. 11
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Introduction
HP ProLiant Power Interface Control overview
The HP ProLiant Power Interface Control (PPIC) Utility is a command-line utility for the HP ProLiant SL Server
Series that enables the following views:
• Chassis power level and power configuration display/view
• Poll chassis power level
• Calibration and power limits
• Set power configuration modes
• Support of logging through the standard syslog
IMPORTANT: The use of the term server represents nodes, server nodes, server trays, and
cartridges.
Power Management Controller
As depicted in the diagram above, the embedded Power Management Controller is able to monitor power
consumption for all aspects of an HP chassis and throttle the speed of the processors and memory in each
node within the chassis in order to maintain a pre-set power budget.
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Power capping
Power capping supported servers and chassis
The following server products support power capping:
• HP ProLiant SL160s G6 Server (with BIOS of O33-05192011 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL165s G7 Server (with BIOS of O37-08102011 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL170s G6 Server (with BIOS of O40-05112011 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL230s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL250s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL270s Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL335s G7 Server (with BIOS of A24-later than 02042011)
• HP ProLiant SL390s G7 Server (with BIOS of P69-050511 or later)
• HP ProLiant SL210t Server
• HP ProLiant SL4540 Gen8 Server
• HP ProLiant SL4545 G7 Server
Power capping requirements
Observe the following minimum firmware requirements:
• For HP ProLiant SL s6500 Chassis only, SL Chassis Firmware must have version 4.30 or later.
• All nodes in the chassis must have LO100 Advanced Pack, iLO Scale Out, or iLO Advanced License.
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Power Measurement
Power measurement utility
This utility displays the power reading calculated by the chassis Power Management Controller.
As with any measurement system, variations in temperature, input power, and system loads impact the
accuracy of the power calculations. All power readings displayed by this utility have a -/+ 5% tolerance.
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HP ProLiant Power Interface Control Utility
Installing the utility
1. Go to the HP website (http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc).
2. Enter the server name in the Find an HP product by search box, and then click Go.
3. Select View and download all drivers, software, and firmware for this product.
4. Select your server.
5. Select the operating system.
6. Scroll down to Utility - Tools and download the HP ProLiant Power Interface Control (PPIC) Utility.
7. Extract the files using WinZip to a directory on your drive.
Running the utility
Microsoft Windows OS
1. Log in to the server.
2. Add the executable into the directory.
3. Enter and run the following command:
ppic.exe
Linux OS
IMPORTANT: If you are running a 64-bit Linux platform, be sure to install the 32-bit C++
standard libraries.
1. Log in to the server.
2. Enter and run the following command:
./ppic
Command line utility
HP provides a simple command line utility, called PPIC, for monitoring and configuring the power control
configuration of the SL product lines.
The PPIC utility must only be executed through one server node per chassis.
Synopsis
ppic [-h] [-d] [-v] [-p -ffrequency -tduration] [-c] [-s -mmode -lpower]
[-ofilename]
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