Chapter 8: Power, Environmental & Digital I/O
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8.1.2 RPC access privileges and alerts
You can now set PDU and IPMI alerts using Alerts & Logging: Alerts (refer Chapter 7). You can also assign which user
can access and control which particular outlet on each RPC using Serial &Network: User &Groups (refer Chapter 4)
8.1.3 User power management
The Power Manager enables both Users and Administrators to access and control the configured serial and network
attached PDU power strips, and servers with embedded IPMI service processors or BMCs:
 Select the Manage: Power and the particular Target power device to be controlled (and the Outlet to be
controlled if the RPC supports outlet level control)
 The outlet status is displayed and you can initiate the desired Action to be taken by selecting the appropriate
icon:
Turn ON
Turn OFF
Cycle
Status
You will only be presented with icons for those operations that are supported by the Target you have selected.
8.1.4 RPC status
You can monitor the current status of your network and serially connected PDUs and IPMI RPCs
 Select the Status: RPC Status menu and a table with the summary status of all connected RPC hardware will be
displayed