Ports Menu & Forms > Physical Ports > Power Management

Power Management
Under Ports > Physical Ports in Expert Mode, after you select one or more serial ports, and click the Modify Port(s), you can select the Power Management form from the tabbed menu. The following form appears.
Expert > Ports > Physical Ports > Power Management
You can use this form to make it possible for a user who is connected to a device through the selected serial port to perform power management. While connected to the device, the user brings up a power management menu or dialog box by entering a hot key.
Note: “Enable power management” on this form refers to IPDU power management, Applications > IPDU Power Mgmt.
Additional fields appear on the form if “Enable Power management on this port” and “Enable IPMI on this port” are checked, as shown in the following figure.
Expert > Ports > Physical Ports > Power Management
The following table describes the available fields in the power management form.
Expert > Power Management Form Fields
(available only if IPMI is enabled)
Radio button to allow all users to perform power management on the configured port.
Radio button to allow only selected users or groups to perform power management on the configured port.
 
 
 
 
 
(available only if “Allow Users/Groups” radio button is selected)
(available only if “Allow Users/Groups” radio button is selected)
Power management while connected to a port is possible only when one or both of the following conditions are true.
To see the list of previously configured IPMI devices, or to add a new IPMI device, go to Applications > IPMI Power Mgmt.
If you click “Enable power management” and click the “Add” button, the “Add Outlet” dialog box appears, as shown in the following figure. In this dialog box, you can specify the AlterPath PM IPDU and the outlet number(s) into which the device is plugged.
Expert > Ports > Physical Ports > Power Management > Add Outlets Dialog Box
The “PM” on the “Power Management Alias” pull-down menu in the example figure indicates that a serial port is configured for power management, and an IPDU is connected to the configured port. Entered outlet numbers are separated by commas. You would specify outlet number 1,2,3,4 as shown in the figure.
To Configure a Serial Port for IPDU or IPMI Power Management
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Go to Ports > Physical Ports, select a port or ports to modify, click the appropriate Modify Ports button, and the Power Management tab.
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To enable Power Management of a device connected to the current port and plugged into a connected IPDU, click “Enable Power Management on this port.” and perform the following steps.
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The “Add Outlet” dialog box appears.
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The power management port and the specified outlet numbers display on the PowerMgmt Port list.
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Enter a caret (^) for the escape key, as in ^p. The caret stands for the Ctrl key.
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To enable IPMI Power Management of an IPMI device connected to the currently selected port, do the following steps.
This procedure assumes you have added the connected IPMI device in the Applications > IPMI Power Mgmt. form.
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The “IPMI key” and “IPMI Server” fields appear.
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Enter the key combination in the IPMI key field with ^, as in ^i. The caret (^) stands for the Ctrl key.
The administrator of the device connected to this serial port uses this hot key to bring up the IPMI power management screen.
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To Configure a User for IPDU Power Management While Connected To a Serial Port
Perform this procedure to allow a user to perform power management on a device while connected to it through one of the ACS’s serial ports.
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Expert > Ports > Physical Ports > Power Management>Allow All Users
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To restrict power management on this port to a set of users authorized to access this port, click the “Allow Users/Groups.”
Expert > Ports > Physical Ports >Power Management >Allow Users/ Groups
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