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Power Inventory and Budget
Use the Power Inventory and Budget window to view and configure power inventory values in the server administrator.
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Selection View Data Manage
Power Consumption User, Power User, Administrator,Elevated Administrator(Linux only) Administrator,Elevated Administrator(Linux only)
NOTE: For more details on user privilege levels, see "Privilege Levels in the Server Administrator GUI."
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Power Inventory
Displays list of power profiles available.
System Idle Power Displays the System Idle Power in watt and BTU/hr. This is the minimum power the system can consume based on the current hardware configuration.
System Maximum Potential Power Displays the System Potential Power in watt and BTU/hr. This is the maximum power the system can consume based on the current hardware configuration.
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Power budget
The power budget feature allows you to set a cap on power budget by setting a threshold on system level power consumption. System performance will be dynamically adjusted to maintain power consumption near the specified threshold. Actual power consumption may momentarily exceed the threshold until performance adjustments have completed.
Enable Power Cap Allows you to enable or disable power capping.
NOTE: If the fields are greyed out, it indicates that the PowerCap settings are not configurable. You may notice this on some modular systems.
Power Cap Displays the cap value currently set in watt, BTU/hr and percentage. If you enter a value in any one of the edit boxes, the values in the other two boxes will be subsequently modified.
NOTE: The change in hardware configuration could impact the power cap if it affects the power inventory values (Idle Power and Maximum Potential Power).
a) If the minimum power goes above the cap that you have set, then the firmware will re-adjust the cap to the minimum value.
b) If the maximum power goes below the cap that you have set, then the firmware will not re-adjust the cap to the maximum value. You will need to re-configure the cap value.
Applicable systems - All PMBus capable systems, starting xx1x systems.
For information on how to set alert actions for power monitoring, see "Set Alert Actions."
NOTE: Due to the limitations of the VMware® ESXi operating system, the Setting Alert Actions feature is not available with this release of OpenManage Server Administrator.
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