Manage Power Consumption

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Applies To: Operations Manager 2007

By using the Power Management Pack, you can lower power consumption during specified hours to reduce overall power consumption.

To lower power consumption during specified hours, perform the following procedures:

  1. Create a group of power-manageable devices. For instructions, see How to Create a Group for Power Consumption Monitoring. You can verify which devices are power-manageable by viewing the members of the Power Managed Device Group in the Authoring section of the Operations console.

  2. Enable one or both of the following sets of rules:

    • Set Power Budget For Business Hours and Set Power Budget For Non-Business Hours

      Note

      You must be able to write to the power budget of a power supply to apply the power budget rules. To verify if the power supply is power budget-writeable, contact the hardware vendor.

    • Set Power Plan For Business Hours and Set Power Plan For Non-Business Hours

  3. Using an override for the group you created in step 1, set the following parameters for each rule as appropriate for your requirements:

    Parameter Value

    Days of week mask

    The parameter for the days of the week that you want the rule to run uses a numeric value. Each day has an assigned number. To set the parameter for the days of the week, enter the sum of the numeric values for the days that you want the rule to run.

    • Sunday: 1

    • Monday: 2

    • Tuesday: 4

    • Wednesday: 8

    • Thursday: 16

    • Friday: 32

    • Saturday: 64

    The default setting is 62, which runs the rule daily Monday through Friday.

    For a complete listing, see Appendix: Days of Week Mask Values.

    Enabled

    You must enable both rules in a set in order to define business hours and non-business hours.

    For the Set Power Budget For Business Hours and Set Power Budget For Non-Business Hours rules: New power budget in Watts

    Set a value in watts to limit the amount of power that each device in the group can use.

    For the Set Power Plan For Business Hours and Set Power Plan For Non-Business Hours rules: New power plan name

    Set the power plan that you want applied to the group during the business and non-business hours: high performance, balanced, or power saver (or a custom power plan).

    Note

    When you set the power plan, you must specify the power plan name in the language that is used on the monitored servers.

    Scheduled time

    Set the time that you want the rule take effect.

    Timeout in seconds

    Set the value for how many seconds the script that sets the power plan or power budget should run before it times out.