OpenManage Enterprise (OME)

Power Manager
Power Policies
OME Power Manager – Policies for power and thermal
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Fully Integrated With:
OME Managed Enterprise Why?
Power Manager uses iDRACs to:
User Interface
Help control the power consumption
Breaker Issues
• Gather power, thermal, metric
and allow the customer to maintain
• to Database
the values that they are trying Power Grid Issues
information.
To set power caps:
maintain.
• Discovery • SetThermal
power caps Spikes Required:
• Must have iDRACs enterprise or
OME Advanced License
• Inventory iDRACs data center.

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 OME Power Manager Power Capping

Power Capping

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Manager.

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 OME Power Manager Power Capping – power policy

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OME Power Manager Power Capping – Disable a Policy

To disable a power policy,

the customer can use the
Power Manager UI by
selecting the policy and
then clicking the disable
Power Manager communicates with button.
iDRACs to turn off the power cap.

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 OME Power Manager - Time Sensitive Power Policies
Lower Carbon Footprint

Time sensitive power

policies
Thermal Policies
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groups) all the time or the
customer may choose to only
cap power at specific
timeframes.

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