Dell EMC OpenManage Server Administrator

Power Inventory and Budget

Use the Power Inventory and Budget window to view and configure power inventory values in the server administrator.

User Privileges

Table 1. User Privileges
Selection View DataManage
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.

Power Inventory

Displays list of power profiles available.

System Idle Power Displays the minimum estimated power consumption for the system with MAXIMUM CPU and memory workload, with hardware based throttling FULLY active.
System Maximum Potential Power Displays the maximum estimated power consumption for the system with MAXIMUM CPU and memory workload, with NO hardware based throttling (i.e. PROCHOT) active.

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.

NOTE: The Power Budget feature is not displayed on 12th Generation of PowerEdge systems and later if the appropriate license is not installed.
Enable Power Cap Allows you to enable or disable power capping.
NOTE: If the fields are not selectable, it indicates that the PowerCap settings are not configurable. You may notice this on some Blade 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).
  • If the minimum power goes above the cap that you have set, then the firmware will re-adjust the cap to the minimum value.
  • 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 11G 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 Server Administrator.
For an explanation of other buttons present on Server Administrator Action pages, see Server Administrator Window Buttons.