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Configuring AEM to Monitor Power Usage

How to better utilize your available power

 

IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager* (AEM) is a Systems Director plug-in that offers many power and thermal monitoring and management capabilities. You can use it to gain an understanding of your data center’s power usage, which may help you better utilize available power. You can also use it to plan for future energy needs. AEM can directly monitor IBM Power Systems*, System z*, System x* and BladeCenter* servers. It can also indirectly monitor non-IBM equipment using external metering devices such as power distribution units (PDUs) and sensor devices.

This article explains how to use external metering devices with AEM to monitor equipment in your data center. It describes how to configure associations between the metering devices and the resources they meter and describes the monitoring capabilities available for externally metered resources.

Configuration

To begin, perform a system discovery of the metering device and request access to it. AEM supports the following external metering device types: IBM and non-IBM PDUs; sensor devices with power and/or environmental sensors; and uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs).

The complete list of supported metering devices is listed in the Active Energy Manager Information Center online (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/ infocenter/director/v6r1x/topic/aem_410/frb0_r_HW_reqs_metering_devices.html). Use the Configure Metering Device interface to create associations between the metering devices and the resources they meter.

 

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