Detect Excessive Power Consumption

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

You can use the Power Management Pack to receive alerts when monitored computers exceed a specified threshold and to apply either a power budget or power plan when an alert is generated. You can express the power threshold as a percentage of a power budget or as an absolute value.

To detect excessive power consumption, perform the following procedures:

  1. Create a group that contains the computers connected to a particular PDU. For instructions, see How to Create a Group for Power Consumption Monitoring.

  2. Enable the Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Consumption monitor or create an override for the Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Consumption monitor that enables the monitor for the group that you created in step 1.

  3. For the Windows Server 2008 R2 Power Consumption monitor, enable Power Budget Recovery or Power Plan Recovery or both.

    Note

    When you enable Power Plan Recovery, you must specify the power plan name in the language that is used on the monitored servers.