Monitoring And Managing Power; Monitoring Power; Monitoring Power Using Web Interface; Monitoring Power Using Racadm - Dell iDRAC7 User Manual

Monitoring and Managing Power

You can use iDRAC7 to monitor and manage the power requirements of the managed system. This helps to protect the
system from power outages by appropriately distributing and regulating the power consumption on the system.
The key features are:
• Power Monitoring — View the power status, history of power measurements, the current averages, peaks, and so
on for the managed system.
• Power Capping — View and set the power cap for the managed system, including displaying the minimum and
maximum potential power consumption. This is a licensed feature.
• Power Control — Enables you to remotely perform power control operations (such as, power on, power off, system
reset, power cycle, and graceful shutdown) on the managed system.
• Power Supply Options — Configure the power supply options such as redundancy policy, hot spare, and power
factor correction.
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Monitoring Power

Executing Power Control Operations
Power Capping
Configuring Power Supply Options
Enabling or Disabling Power Button
Monitoring Power
iDRAC7 monitors the power consumption in the system continuously and displays the following power values:
• Power consumption warning and critical thresholds.
• Cumulative power, peak power, and peak amperage values.
• Power consumption over the last hour, last day or last week.
• Average, minimum, and maximum power consumption.
• Historical peak values and peak timestamps.
• Peak headroom and instantaneous headroom values (for rack and tower servers).

Monitoring Power Using Web Interface

To view the power monitoring information, in iDRAC7 Web interface, go to Overview → Server → Power/Thermal →
Power Monitoring. The Power Monitoring page is displayed. For more information, see the

Monitoring Power Using RACADM

To view the power monitoring information, use the System.Power group objects with the get command or the
cfgServerPower object with the getconfig command. For more information, see the
Guide for iDRAC7 and CMC available at dell.com/support/manuals.
iDRAC7 Online Help .
RACADM Command Line Reference
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