DELL VxRail D560 OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager User Guide

DELL VxRail D560 OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager

Introduction

This document describes the new features, changed features, resolved issues, known issues, and limitations in Dell EMC Open Manage Enterprise Power Manager.
Current Release Version: 3.1
Release Type:  Major (MA)

Topics:

• Revision history
• Product description
• New features
• Resolved issues
• Known issues
• Limitations
• Environment and system requirements
• Installation and upgrade considerations
• Where to get help

Revision history

This section provides a description of document changes.

Table 1. Document Revision history

Product description

OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager is a plug-in to OpenManage Enterprise. It uses fine-grained instrumentation to provide increased visibility to power consumption, carbon emissions, system anomalies, and resource utilization on servers. Power Manager supports monitoring of virtual machines and virtual machine groups; alerts and reports generation about thermal events in servers, chassis, and custom groups consisting of servers and chassis. This reporting enables increased control, faster response times, greater accuracy, and broader decision-making intelligence than is otherwise possible

Table 2. Newly supported devices in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1

• *VxRail D560

Non-Dell servers|

• *VxRail G560

VxRail|

• *VxRail G560F

UPS|

• *VxRail E665

• *VxRail P675F

• *VxRail P675N

• *PowerEdge R7625

 |

• *PowerEdge XR4510c
• *PowerEdge XR4520c
• *PowerEdge R760
• *PowerEdge R660
• *PowerEdge C6620
• *PowerEdge C6600
• *PowerEdge MX760c
• *PowerEdge R6625
• *PowerEdge R6615
• *PowerEdge R7615
• *PowerEdge XE9680
• • Most HPE servers having Integrated  Lights-Out 5 (iLO 5)
• • Most Lenovo servers having XClarity Controller (XCC) Smart UPS with SNMP interface version 1 and version 2 manufactured by APC by Schneider Electric.

*These devices are supported from 3.1.
For more information about the user documentation, see the OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager product support page on https://www.dell.com/support.

New features

The following table describes the features and enhancements that are introduced with OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1.

Table 3. New features in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1

Generate reports about UPS device details and metrics; non-Dell servers. Custom reports display the power and temperature metrics in user-configured units.
Back up and restore| Back up and restore Power Manager data along with OpenManage Enterprise by using the backup and restore feature| Back up and restore Power Manager data.
New platform support| Added support for 16G PowerEdge servers.| Added support for 16G PowerEdge servers.

Resolved issues

Table 4. Resolved issues in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1

Physical Groups, the power value considered for calculation of stranded power is the most recent metric instead of the maximum power value for the selected report duration.
Not available| Manage groups| By default, the devices that are part of a physical group are automatically added to Power Manager as individual devices and as a part of the group. When you log in as a Device Manager with access to this physical group, you can remove devices from the Individual Devices tab, but cannot add the same devices back to the Individual Devices tab. However, you can view the devices in the All Monitored Devices list, since they are part of the group, and there is no data loss of that device.
Not available| Upgrade| After upgrading to OpenManage Enterprise version 3.6, discovery and inventory jobs run automatically, and if Redfish protocol is available for a device, the Redfish protocol takes precedence over WS-Man protocol and all operations for that device happen through Redfish protocol. And, Power Manager-specific capabilities are not supported for Redfish capable devices until Power Manager is upgraded to 2.0. Hence, devices that are Redfish capable are removed from Power Manager groups.
Not available| Scope-based access control| A Device Manager user can view details of all the Virtual Machines that are monitored in Power Manager through REST API.
Not available| Manage groups| When you import a CSV file with more than 100 groups and devices, the group creation is successful, but the association of devices to the groups may fail, with the following error message on the Jobs page under Physical Group CSV Import Task job: Unable to complete the action because the value entered for GroupId is invalid.
Not available| Power Distribution Unit (PDU)| When you log in to Power Distribution Units (PDUs) with wrong credentials, an alert with:
OID : .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.5 specific trap ID: 0 generic trap ID: 5
is generated as an unknown trap in OpenManage Enterprise.
Not available| Manage groups| You can delete a physical group even if the EPR is applied on the group.
Not available| Alerts| Alerts are not generated in OpenManage Enterprise when the configured thresholds are violated on servers.
Not available| Alerts| Alerts are not generated in OpenManage Enterprise when the configured thresholds are violated on chassis.
Not available| Alerts| False critical alert is generated in OpenManage Enterprise versions 3.6.x even when the temperature value of monitored group is in the normal temperature range.
Not available| Metrics| In the Metrics and Monitoring History section, if you clear the selection of any metric type (maximum, average, and minimum), and place your cursor on the graph, the tooltip displays incorrect data.
212224| Virtual machines| In OpenManage Enterprise version 3.8 and Power Manager 2.0, metric information of virtual machines is not retrieved by using REST API.
212380| Console and plugins| When a device that is also monitored in OpenManage Enterprise CloudIQ Plugin is added again to Power Manager, the metric information is retained even though Delete Power Manager data is configured to delete metric data from Power Manager.

Known issues

Table 5. Known issues in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1

EPR on a device, the EPR operation may fail, and there is an entry in the Audit Logs.| operation may fail, and there is an entry in the Audit Logs. Ensure that all the following conditions are met:

• There is at least one device in the group that is eligible for applying EPR.
• Throttle option is applicable for the following devices: ○ If the device is a server, then iDRAC Enterprise license is applied. ○ If the device is PowerEdge M1000e or PowerEdge MX7000 chassis.
• Shutdown option is applicable only for servers.

Not available| Console and plugins| After rebooting OpenManage Enterprise, if you perform any plug-in lifecycle-related actions for Power Manager, the job is initiated in the back-end but you still see the Console and Plugins page. And, the following message is displayed after some time: This page isn’t working.| Wait for some time, and view the status. The plugin lifecycle- related action is completed successfully.
Not available| Policies| For an MX7000 chassis, the power cap value is displayed as same as the upper bound value. When you manually change the power cap percentage, the value is not updated and even if you change the value, the percentage is not updated.| Provide the power cap value, and save the policy. The policy imposes the specified power cap value on the selected devices or groups.
Not available| Policies| Events are not generated for the following combination of temperature threshold violations:

• Lower Warning to Upper Warning
• Lower Critical to Upper Critical
• Upper Warning to Lower Warning
• Upper Critical to Lower Critical

| Provide realistic warning and critical values so that there are no immediate alert generating temperature changes.
Not available| Manage groups using REST API.| When you try to remove a device that is part of multiple groups using the REST API, then an error message is displayed.| To remove a device that is part of multiple groups, remove the device from the group in OpenManage Enterprise. The changes are automatically reflected in Power Manager.
Not available| Manage groups| When devices are simultaneously added to and removed from a static group through OpenManage Enterprise, there are multiple entries of this update in the Audit Logs and Alert Log.|
Not available| Manage settings using REST API.| When you change the power and temperature units in Power Manager through REST APIs and check for the unit change updates in UI, the updates are not reflected on the UI.| To view the updates on the UI after changing the power and temperature units through REST APIs, refresh the browser.
Not available| Discovery| When you rediscover a device or an inventory job is in progress in OpenManage Enterprise, the following| Add the devices in Power Manager after the discovery or inventory job is completed.

Table 5. Known issues in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1 (continued)

Issue ID| Functional area| Description| Workaround or Resolution
---|---|---|---
 |  | error message is displayed: Value entered for id is invalid|
Not available| Manage groups| After creating a physical group, you may not see Create New Physical Group, Edit Group, Manage Rack, Delete Group, or Attributes options when you right-click any group.| As a workaround, wait for some time or refresh the page, and then right-click the group. All the relevant options are displayed.
14527| Online help| The search results are not displayed in online help for the Japanese language.|
 |  |  | To view the devices that are Redfish capable after upgrading to Power Manager version 2.0:

1. Run Inventory in OpenManage Enterprise.
2. Click the Refresh Power Manager capabilities option on the Power Manager Devices page in Power Manager.

Not available| Power Distribution Unit (PDU)| If you search for a PDU device in the global search of OpenManage Enterprise when Power Manager is disabled, you can still view the PDU link in the search. However, the PDU devices are not visible if Power Manager is disabled. Hence, after clicking the PDU link, you are redirected to the Devices page|
209489| Upgrade| Appliance upgrade time might be between 1–10 hours depending on the number of devices being monitored by Power Manager.|
230456| Virtual machines| When a VM is migrated from one hypervisor to another, the VM performance report—integrated and custom—displays only the data that is collected after the migration.| Before migrating the VMs, ensure that you run the reports. To view the VM metrics, use the REST API: /api/MetricService/ Metrics
230262| Virtual machines| When a VM is migrated from one hypervisor to another, the VM and server power metrics on the View Metrics page are partially displayed.| To view the VM and server power metrics, use the REST API: /api/ MetricService/Metrics
236651| Virtual machine groups| When you remove a VM from a group and the VM was not added to the group, a message that this operation cannot occur is not displayed. A success message is displayed in the Audit logs, but the VM is not removed.|
239379| Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS)| When a UPS is discovered using IPv6, the UPS console cannot be launched from the UPS details page.|
252361| Metrics| If an MX7000 chassis having OpenManage Modular Advanced license is monitored in both Power Manager and CloudIQ plug-ins, power and thermal history graphs have data points missing at every 15th minute in Historical Device Metrics graph.| View the power and thermal metrics in CloudIQ plugin.
249192| Backup and restore feature| If the task for automatically creating physical hierarchy is running, it is not forcefully ended even if the option for ending all running task is selected while taking a backup of OpenManage Enterprise.| Before taking backup, ensure that the task for automatically creating physical hierarchy is not running.
256044| Manage groups| Creating or modifying a device group in the Power Manager plug-in physical hierarchy, with a name already in use in the Services plug-in, is not permitted.| Use unique names across groups under Physical hierarchy and Services groups, and then try the operation again.
255988| Emergency Power Reduction (EPR)| When Staggered EPR Removal is enabled in Power Manager settings, EPR is not removed from target devices even if it is disabled from groups that have more than 42 EPR-capable devices.| To remove EPR from groups with more than 42 EPR-capable devices, ensure that you disable Staggered EPR Removal in PMP settings first.
259718| 16G PowerEdge servers| For servers with iDRAC firmware version 6.00.00.00 and later, the following metrics might be displayed intermittently in Power Manager:

• CPU Power Consumption
• Memory Power Consumption
• Storage Power Consumption
• Fan Power Consumption
• System Airflow

|
261952| XR PowerEdge models| Unable to add the XR models—PowerEdge XR4510c and XR4520c—to the physical group rack slot.|

Limitations

Table 6. Limitations in OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager 3.1

differ slightly due to the protocol designs.
Rack space capacity| When you add a device in a Rack physical group, the minimum size you can allocate for a device is 1U. In a PowerEdge C-Series platform, you can accommodate two servers in 1U space. Hence, the space capacity calculations are not accurate when C-Series platform servers are added to a Rack physical group.

Environment and system requirements

For the complete list about supported devices, protocols, hardware, and web browsers, see OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager User’s Guide available at https://www.dell.com/support.

Installation and upgrade considerations

Installation instructions

To monitor power and thermal data for devices or groups, install Power Manager plug-in or extension on OpenManage Enterprise.

NOTE: Installing a plug-in on OpenManage Enterprise restarts the appliance services.
For information about installing Power Manager, see OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager User’s Guide.

Upgrade instructions

Ensure that you are using OpenManage Enterprise version 3.10.
To upgrade to Power Manager version 3.1 from Power Manager version 3.0, do the following:

1. On the Console and Plugins page, click the refresh icon in the Check for Updates section. To go to the Console and Plugins page, in OpenManage Enterprise, click Application Settings > Console and Plugins.
   Power Manager version 3.1 is now available for update.

2. Upgrade to Power Manager version 3.1

NOTE: The settings that are configured in older version of Power Manager are retained in latest version of Power Manager.

Where to get help

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Notes, cautions, and warnings

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