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Adding an unmanaged device

If you choose ‘Unmanaged server’, ‘Unmanaged network device’, or ‘Unmanaged storage device’ as the device type, you can configure ‘Power Estimator’ to estimate the power of the device(s) (as unmanaged devices do not have power monitoring capabilities). You can configure the estimator by specifying a typical power value or looking up through the power profiles.

To configure the power estimator through power profile lookup, go to the ‘Datacenter Management’ page, select the ‘Hierarchy’ tab, and then add the unmanaged device to a rack and select the device. Click the ‘Edit’ link on the ‘Summary’ tab and a popup dialog box appears. You can select the profile from the list and Energy Manager will fill in the peak power and active idle power automatically based on your selection. Clicking OK finishes the configuration process of the ‘Power Estimator’.

If your device does not match the profiles in the list, or you know the typical power of your device, you can:

Fill in the peak power and active idle power directly.

Click ‘Add’ in the popup dialog to add a power profile. Select from 3 types of power profiles available in the drop-down list: ‘Server’, ‘Network Device’, and ‘Storage Device’.

You can edit or delete a power profile by clicking the corresponding buttons.

You can also check, edit and delete all the power profiles on the ‘Power Profile’ tab of the ‘Settings’ page.

Note
After adding an unmanaged device into a rack, an event will appear in the ‘Events’ list to remind you to configure a power estimator for it.

You can configure the ‘Power Estimator’ for devices of the same type in batches: If you have specified an unmanaged device for a PDU, you can see the information for the PDU on the last line of the ‘Device list’. For example, you can get its power information from Outlet1 of PDU with an IP address of 10.239.98.30. You can click the Clear link to disassociate this information.