Lenovo ThinkServer User manual

Brand: Lenovo

Model: ThinkServer

Type: User manual

ThinkServer

Smart Grid Technology User Guide

Table of Contents

Statement ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4

Trademark and Copyright ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 5

Chapter 1. Product Overview .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 6

1.1 Product Introduction .......................................................................................................................................................................................................... 6

1.2 Structure and Composition of the Product ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7

1.3 Operating Environment of the Product .............................................................................................................................................................................. 8

1.4 Major Functions of the Product ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

Chapter 2. Planning and Deployment ................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

2.1 Deployment Planning ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10

2.1.1 Centralized Power Consumption Management for Multiple Servers in LAN ....................................................................................................... 10

2.1.2 Centralized Management of Multiple Servers across Internet.............................................................................................................................. 11

2.1.3 Server Time Synchronization Requirements ........................................................................................................................................................ 11

2.1.4 Port Usage Requirements of Smart Grid Server .................................................................................................................................................. 11

2.1.5 Network Connectivity Requirements for Data Collection ..................................................................................................................................... 12

2.1.6 Performance Data Collection Requirements of Windows Servers ...................................................................................................................... 12

2.2 Installation ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

2.2.1 Installation for Windows ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 12

2.2.2 Installation for Linux ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 13

2.3 Uninstall ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14

2.3.1 Uninstallation for Windows .................................................................................................................................................................................. 14

2.3.2 Uninstallation for Linux ........................................................................................................................................................................................ 14

Chapter 3. Product Instructions ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 15

3.1 Access to System ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15

3.1.1 First Login ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 15

3.1.2 Exit the System .................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16

3.2 Home ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 16

3.2.1 Power Consumption of the Day ........................................................................................................................................................................... 16

3.2.2 Device Overview .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16

3.2.3 Power Consumption Ranking in Last 1 Hour....................................................................................................................................................... 18

3.2.4 Event List ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 18

3.2.5 Device Status ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18

3.3 System Configuration ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

3.3.1 Activate Software ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19

3.3.2 Global Configuration ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 19

3.3.3 User Management ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 19

3.4 Device Discovery ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19

3.4.1 Auto Discovery ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20

3.4.2 Batch Import ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 20

3.4.3 Add a Single Device............................................................................................................................................................................................. 20

3.5 Device Management........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 21

3.5.1 Device Information Lookup .................................................................................................................................................................................. 21

3.5.2 Status Management............................................................................................................................................................................................. 23

3.5.3 Editing .................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 25

3.5.4 Deleting ................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 25

3.5.5 Import/Export ....................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26

3.5.6 Power Consumption Management ...................................................................................................................................................................... 26

3.5.7 Performance Management .................................................................................................................................................................................. 26

3.6 Power Consumption Monitoring and Learning ................................................................................................................................................................ 26

3.6.1 Power Consumption Monitoring .......................................................................................................................................................................... 26

3.6.2 Power Consumption Learning ............................................................................................................................................................................. 27

3.7 Power Consumption Control ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 28

3.7.1 Management Policy ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 28

3.7.2 Policy Description ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 29

3.7.3 Policy Operating Status ....................................................................................................................................................................................... 30

3.7.4 Emergency Plan .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31

3.8 Performance Management .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 32

3.8.1 Performance Monitoring ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 32

3.8.2 Threshold Setting ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 33

3.9 Statistic Ranking .............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 34

3.9.1 Power Consumption Ranking .............................................................................................................................................................................. 34

3.9.2 Performance Ranking .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 34

3.10 Operation Report ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35

3.10.1 Report Functions ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 35

3.10.2 Report Explained ............................................................................................................................................................................................... 35

3.11 Event Management ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 38

3.11.1 Event List ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 38

3.11.2 Forwarding Configuration................................................................................................................................................................................... 38

Chapter 4. Frequently Asked Questions ................................................................................................................................................................................ 40

4.1 It's Unable to See Power Consumption Data in Smart Grid ............................................................................................................................................ 40

4.2 It's Unable to See Performance Data under Linux Host.................................................................................................................................................. 40

4.3 It's Unable to See Performance Data in Windows Host .................................................................................................................................................. 41

4.4 Unable to Discover the Host ............................................................................................................................................................................................ 41

4.5 Unable to Discover Any Device via Auto Discovery under Linux .................................................................................................................................... 41

4.6 When Adding a Device, It's Prompted that the Device is Unable to Perform Power Consumption Control.................................................................... 42

4.7 Event Forwarding Configuration ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 42

Appendix 1: Glossary and Abbreviations ............................................................................................................................................................................... 44

Appendix 2: Smart Grid Event Type Description ................................................................................................................................................................... 45

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Chapter 1. Product Overview

1.1 PRODUCT INTRODUCTION

Lenovo ThinkServer Smart Grid Technology (hereafter referred to Smart Grid) is a software (not free) associated with Lenovo ThinkServer servers,

which can monitor and manage the power consumption of several Lenovo ThinkServer servers in the corporation network, IDC and so on.

This product is a combination of IT (Information Technology) management and ET (Energy Technology) management, which can provide centralized

remote management of power consumption of the servers supporting Intel Power Node Manager technology.

The process which Smart Grid manages the device power consumption includes: Discover/Import a Device  Monitor the Power Consumption of a

Device  Learn the Characteristics of the Power Consumption Changes  Implement Energy-saving Policies  Analyze the Energy-saving

Conditions  Power Consumption Policy Adjustment Suggestion. This process makes the closed loop full-process management for device power

consumption into a reality, so that the most appropriate energy-saving policy can be determined for each device in order to lower its power consumption.

Smart Grid applies server/browser architecture and is easy to operate, while collecting device power consumption data and performance data can be

done without installing any agent software in the managed servers. This product simply needs to be installed on the server end and the end-users may

use the product through their web browsers.

Reducing the device power consumption, Smart Grid can effectively reduce the power consumption of the whole machine room, in order to realizing

the energy-saving and emission-reduction of green IT.

The new features in Smart Grid include:

1. Monitors the Power Consumption of Device (Group)

Provide a real-time power consumption monitoring function for the device (group), which allows you to master the real-time power consumption at any

time.

Support an auto/manual power consumption control for the device. This system recommends a group of default power consumption control policies on

the basis of existing device power consumption condition; in addition, users can also set different power consumption values for different periods as

needed, in order to refine the management of energy-saving policies. Enable the system to control the device power consumption by activating the

power consumption control policy.

Support the power consumption control based on device group. When an power consumption value is set for a certain group, the system will adjust the

power consumption policy for each device automatically according to the requirement of devices in the group, balancing the performance of each

device in the group while ensuring the group power consumption value not exceed the threshold, so as to guarantee the well business operations.

2. Collects the Device Performance Agentless

The traditional network management system requires an agent software to be installed in the business host to collect performance data, this will cause

new potential troubles to the business host because the agent software itself may have many uncertainties and security problems, moreover, the

installation and maintenance of this agent software will need a big cost for large-scale machine room.

Smart Grid supports the collection of CPU and memory utilization without any agent.

Avoids all impacts on business caused by installing the agent software.

Eliminates the installation, upgrade and maintenance costs due to the agent.

Improves the security of business host.

3. Saves Power without Compromising the Performance

Smart Grid can not only saves the power consumption, but also comprehensively masters the device performance and faults, so as to ensuring

business functioning well while saving the energy, and then realizing the purpose of safe energy-saving.

Monitor the device power consumption while performing the centralized monitoring to the device performance and events.

You can set the performance thresholds as you want.

Auto mail forwarding can be configured in case of important events.

4. Emergency Responses

When an emergency occurs (such as natural disasters and unexpected power-off), appropriate actions shall be taken to shut down the device normally

and write data into the disk, in this case, it is the crucial that how to extend the operating time of device when it is powered by UPS.

Smart Grid provides immediate emergency plans for "Emergency State", and reduces the device power consumption by limiting it to the lowest level,

so as to extend the operating time and ensure the data is archived safely when an emergency occurs.

5. Powerful Auxiliary Functions

This system provides the analysis ability based on the power consumption management, in order to help users analyze the device power-savings.

It helps users to determine the suitability of applying policies, pick out the devices which need a policy adjustment or need to get back to the learning

stage and detail the energy-saving process.

It provides multi-dimensional power consumption statistics and ranks, in order to help users to learn the relative power consumption and historical

power consumption of each device.

1.2 STRUCTURE AND COMPOSITION OF THE PRODUCT

Smart Grid software consists of the following components:

1. Smart Grid server

2. Client browser (provided by the users themselves)

The management mode of Smart Grid is shown below:

1.3 OPERATING ENVIRONMENT OF THE PRODUCT

The operating environments of each component of this software are shown as below:

Smart Grid Server system

requirements

For managing 500 servers:

Xeon [email protected] 1CPU, 8GB RAM, minimum 300GB hard disk space, 1Gb network card

For managing 1000 servers:

Xeon Quad-core@ 2.8G 2CPU, 16GB RAM, minimum 600GB disk space, 1GB network card

Smart Grid Server supports

Operating Systems

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Standard x64

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise x64

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Datacenter x64

Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Standard

Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 (x86 & x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 & x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86 & x86_64)

Note: Highly recommended that the Smart Grid running on the Windows Server ® 2008 R2 operating

system.

Smart Grid Client browser

Web browsers such as IE 7 or later or Firefox 4.0 or later.

Model of manageable server

Lenovo ThinkServer series of rack mount servers.

Note: because Smart Grid manages the servers by using the interfaces of IPMI and Node Manager

standard protocols, theoretically the power consumption management may also be performed on other

servers that support Node Manager 1.5 and 2.0.

Operating Systems for

manageable servers

Windows Server® 2008 Standard (x86 & x64)

Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise (x86 & x64)

Windows Server® 2008 Datacenter (x86 & x64)

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Standard x64

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Enterprise x64

Windows Server® 2008 R2 Datacenter x64

Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Standard

Windows® Small Business Server 2011 Essentials

SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 (x86 & x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (x86 & x86_64)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (x86 & x86_64)

1.4 MAJOR FUNCTIONS OF THE PRODUCT

1. Device Management

In Smart Grid, servers are organized through the management view. The management view shows both Lenovo ThinkServer servers and non-Lenovo

servers that can be currently managed in the forms of tree graph, listing and grouping. These three types of management views not only provide

comprehensive server information management functionality, but also provide the setup function for the power consumption status of devices, so as to

achieve differentiated power consumption management for devices under different states. The major functions include: device information

management (auto discovery, addition, deletion, modification, query, batch import and batch export), device status changes, device power

consumption management and device performance management.

2. Power Consumption Management

The administrators can remotely monitor and control the power consumption of servers, including monitoring the power consumption information and

controlling device power consumption. Appropriate energy-saving policy for every device is determined step by step with the circulating optimization

mode provided by this system, i.e. Learning  Controlling  Analyzing  Relearning  Recontrolling. For such a specific usage model, Smart Grid

provides full life-cycle guide to help users optimize power consumption management policy.

In addition, users can select the duration for storing the historical power consumption records of the servers, and can also export the saved data.

3. Performance Management

The administrators can monitor the CPU and memory utilization of servers remotely in order to help users understand the operating condition of

servers.

The device performance data monitoring function is also provided by this product to be used together with power consumption management, and for

the devices that reach the performance threshold, a threshold warning will be generated to inform the administrator that the device has performance

problems, and that the power consumption control needs to be stopped or that appropriate power consumption control policy needs to be selected.

4. Analysis and Report on Power Consumption

To achieve true cost saving, this system provides multi-dimensional power consumption rankings and power consumption analysis reports, which can

help users analyze the power consumption status of all devices, discover the device with highest power consumption, and filter out the devices with

potential problems in energy saving policy which may need adjustment.

5. Server Event Management

Smart Grid records and saves various event information generated by servers, which enables abundant event management functions.

Event information mainly include DCM events, collector events, active policy events and threshold events.

The administrators can perform operations on all saved event information, such as browsing, searching, exporting and so on.

The administrators can also set forwarding policies for events and send the specified type of alarms to the related maintainer by Email.

Chapter 2. Planning and Deployment

2.1 DEPLOYMENT PLANNING

Smart Grid can support flexible web deployment plans, and uses entire or any part of the product functionality based on the scenarios. For the

application scenarios of server devices that only need power consumption monitoring, the managed servers need to support Intel Intelligent Power

Node Manager technology, and its BMC IP network is connected to Smart Grid Server network. For the application scenarios of server devices that

require power consumption monitoring and performance monitoring simultaneously, Smart Grid server must also be able to get access to the operating

system of managed server through network.

2.1.1 CENTRALIZED POWER CONSUMPTION MANAGEMENT FOR MULTIPLE SERVERS IN LAN

The centralized power consumption management is performed for multi-servers in LAN, which requires the monitoring terminal, Smart Grid server and

managed device are in the same LAN.

Then, you can deploy Smart Grid services on the monitor terminal, but when you have more than 5 sets of managed devices, it is recommended to

use a dedicated server as the Smart Grid server to avoid compromising the effectiveness of management. After the deployment, end users can get

access to Smart Grid by using a web browser from any terminal in the LAN and perform power consumption management to all networked managed

devices. For the management capacities and configuration requirements of Smart Grid servers, please refer to Section 1.3 Operating Environment of

the Product.

Note: It is not recommended to install and run Smart Grid server terminal on the business server regardless of any deployment method, because

Smart Grid server terminal will consume a certain amount of memory and CPU time, which may affect the operation of the business system.

2.1.2 CENTRALIZED MANAGEMENT OF MULTIPLE SERVERS ACROSS INTERNET

Smart Grid can also provide power consumption management to multiple servers when spanning Internet. In this scenario, the corporation network is

divided into two, i.e. LAN and DMZ zone (a large corporation has Extranet and Intranet DMZ zones located in two machine rooms separately) where

the application servers for Internet such as mail server and Web server are located. Every server in DMZ zone is provided with two IP addresses, LAN

address and Internet address, and connects multiple machine rooms by special cables.

Then, Smart Grid server software is installed on a dedicated server in LAN. The end users can monitor the power consumption of servers in LAN and

DMZ zone with the terminal login system in internal LAN, DMZ or Internet, when the network parameters are properly configured.

To ensure that Smart Grid severs can communicate with the servers in DMZ zone, configure the intranet firewall properly and allow normal

communication between the Smart Grid servers and the BMC module of servers in DMZ zone. For the network requirements of this product, please

refer to Section 2.1.3.

If you want to monitor devices by Internet, it is recommended that you can access Intranet by VPN first and then perform operations.

Tips: For safety concern, it is not recommended for users to deploy Smart Grid server on Internet.

2.1.3 SERVER TIME SYNCHRONIZATION REQUIREMENTS

Smart Grid server and the managed server need to maintain synchronization in time, so it is recommended to select a server in the network as a time

server (NTP server) and synchronize the times of other servers with the time of NTP server.

2.1.4 PORT USAGE REQUIREMENTS OF SMART GRID SERVER

The operation of Smart Grid software requires three TCP ports (TCP port numbers of 6443, 8688 and 8888). Therefore, before the installation, please

make sure that the TCP network ports of the sever are not occupied by other software.

2.1.5 NETWORK CONNECTIVITY REQUIREMENTS FOR DATA COLLECTION

Smart Grid performs agentless data collection for the power consumption, CPU usage and memory usage. For a device that needs performance

management, please make sure that the operating system of the device is within the manageable range by Smart Grid, and that the IP network of the

operating system has already been connected to the Smart Grid server and the account of the operating system used for collection can successfully

log into the operating system.

The network requirements for collecting power consumption and performance data of managed devices are as follows:

For power consumption data collecting: the BMC IPMI port of the managed devices (UDP Port 623) can communicate properly by network.

For performance data collecting: if managed devices apply Linux operating system, SSH port (default TCP Port 22) can communicate properly by

network; if managed devices apply Windows operating system, DCOM port (default TCP Port 135) is able to be connected properly via network. If

failed, you can modify the firewall policy or the default ports of SSH or DCOM.

2.1.6 PERFORMANCE DATA COLLECTION REQUIREMENTS OF WINDOWS SERVERS

When Smart Grid is collecting the performance data of servers with Windows 2008 or later, the operating systems installed in managed devices

require the following necessary operations in order to collect the performance data of Windows servers properly due to the stricter security

requirements of Windows 2008 or later. The detailed process is as follows:

(1) If Smart Grid is installed on the Windows operating system, the OS Username at Probe Configuration must be 'administrator' when add the

managed devices;

(2) If Smart Grid is installed on the Linux operating system, you need to copy wmi.bat and wimconfig.ps1 from toos folder in installation CD to the

same directory of managed devices, double-click wmi.bat ,input two parameters: managerIP (IP of Smart Grid server) and probeUserName (OS

username of the managed devices), then press Enter.

2.2 INSTALLATION

Smart Grid uses server/browser architecture design, only the installation of Smart server program is needed and the end-users can get access to this

product through web browsers.

In the Smart Grid installation CD, the included installation packages of three Smart Grid versions are:

(1) smartgrid_32.exe is the Smart Grid installer for Windows 32-bit;

(2) smartgrid_64.exe is the Smart Grid installer for Windows 64-bit;

(3) smartgrid.zip is the Smart Grid installer compatible for both Linux 32-bit and 64-bit.

2.2.1 INSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS

After putting the Smart Grid installation CD into the CD-ROM, the installer will run automatically, and the step-by-step instruction will help you complete

the installation process.

Note: if the installer does not run automatically after the Smart Grid installation CD is placed into the CD-ROM, then enter the CD directory and click

"setup.exe" to launch the installation wizard.

2.2.2 INSTALLATION FOR LINUX

1. After putting Smart Grid installation CD into the CD-ROM, enter the installation directory (e.g. cd/mnt/cdrom), and execute the following installation

commands:

chmod +x install.sh

./install.sh

The program will be installed to /opt/smartgrid by default, and if you want to specify an installation directory (for example: /opt/sgt), execute the

following command:

./install.sh /opt/sgt

2. Install ipmiutil and select a suitable RPM installation package based on the Linux version, and then execute the following command:

rpm -i ipmiutil-2.7.8-1_rhel6.x86_64.rpm

On servers with Red Hat Linux 6.1 or later, the packages required for running Smart Grid are not installed in the operating system by default. These

packages include:

1）ld-linux.so.2

2）libxml2.so.2

3）libpq.so.5

4）libtermcap.so.2

5）libreadline.so.5

The procedure to install the above packages is as follows:

The yum source must be configured before you perform installation with yum, while you can use DVD disk or ISO file as the local yum source when

networking is unavailable. The details are as follows:

(1) Create a directory for storing ISO file (/repo/iso) and a directory for mounting ISO file (/repo/rhel6)

# mkdir /repo/iso

# mkdir /repo/rhel6

If you have a ready ISO file, you can upload it to /repo/iso.

(2) If installing with a DVD disk (automatically mapped under /dev/cdrom after inserting the disk into the server), then create an ISO file

# cp /dev/cdrom /repo/iso/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso

# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/repo/iso/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso

(3) Mount a ISO file

# mount -t iso9660 -o loop /repo/iso/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso /repo/rhel6

# df -h

File System Capacity Used Free Used %% Mounting point

/dev/sda5 97G 5.8G 86G 7% /

tmpfs 1.9G 272K 1.9G 1% /dev/shm

/dev/loop0 3.2G 3.2G 0 100% /repo/rhel6

(4) Ensure related yum packages are installed in the system

# rpm -qa |grep yum

yum-3.2.27-14.el6.noarch

yum-utils-1.1.26-11.el6.noarch

yum-rhn-plugin-0.9.1-5.el6.noarch

PackageKit-yum-0.5.8-13.el6.x86_64

yum-metadata-parser-1.1.2-14.1.el6.x86_64

PackageKit-yum-plugin-0.5.8-13.el6.x86_64

They may have different versions, and if anything is missing, please install it by yourself (most of these packages are installed by default).

(5) Edit repo file

# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/rhel6.repo

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

[Server]

name=rhel6server

baseurl=file:///repo/rhel6/Server

enable=1

gpcheck=1

gpgkey=file:///repo/rhel6/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Note the baseurl here is directed to Server directory. If you want to install software such as clusters and virtual machines additionally, you are also

required to establish the baseurl directed to Cluster, ClusterStorage and VT.

(6) Install the software required by DCM

# yum install ld-linux.so.2

# yum install libxml2.so.2

# yum install libpq.so.5

# yum install libtermcap.so.2

# yum install libreadline.so.5

# yum install unzip

Go to the installation folder after decompression, and you are required to add execute permissions to this file.

chmod u+x Intel\(R\)_Data_Center_Manager_ia32

If you still can not access reference UI program after installation, check the firewall configuration policy.

(7) Write mount commands into fstab (negligible)

Write these mount commands into /etc/fstab in order to help mount immediately after start:

/repo/iso/rhel-server-6.0-x86_64-dvd.iso /repo/rhel6 iso9660 loop 0 0

The .repo file configuration for the workstation of rhel6.1 is as follows:

[Workstation]

name=rhel6server

baseurl=file:///repo/rhel6.1/Workstationenable=1gpcheck=1gpgkey=file:///repo/rhel6.1/RPM-GPG-KEY-redhat-release

2.3 UNINSTALL

2.3.1 UNINSTALLATION FOR WINDOWS

In the operating system of Smart Grid server, open "Control Panel \ All Control Panel \ Programs and Features, and look for the software "ThinkServer

Smart Grid Technology", then click the "Uninstall" button, and follow the wizard to finish uninstallation of this software.

2.3.2 UNINSTALLATION FOR LINUX

On the operating system of Smart Grid, execute the following uninstallation commands:

1. Stop service: cd <Smart Grid installation directory (for example: /opt/smartgrid)>, and execute the command after entering into the installation

directory: ./smartgrid.sh stop

2. Delete the installation directory: cd ../ rm -rf installation directory

3. Delete the registration service, and execute the following commands:

chkconfig --del smartgrid

rm -f /etc/init.d/smartgrid

Chapter 3. Product Instructions

3.1 ACCESS TO SYSTEM

Enter http://xx.xx.xx.xx:8888/smartgrid/ in your browser (xx.xx.xx.xx is the IP address where you will install your app), and then you can use Smart Grid

products. You can enter [user name/password] in the welcome screen, and Smart Grid will select Chinese/English automatically depending on the

language of your browser, while you can also manually select the required language and then click "OK" to enter the system.

Note: the default Smart Grid user name is "admin" and password is "Passw0rd".

Clicking "Reset" can remove the entered information quickly, as illustrated below:

3.1.1 FIRST LOGIN

If this is your first login after installation, the system will help you finish the required settings. Here are the steps:

Change the system default password.

When you enter the welcome page, you can choose to either skip over the wizard or to import your device. If you do not choose, then follow the

procedure i.e. Fill in the Information  Discover a Device  Enable the learning stage to start the power consumption management.

Before your device is discovered, you are required to fill in some necessary information including BMC IP start address and BMC user name and

password (if the default settings of BMC are not changed in Lenovo ThinkServer servers, you are only required to enter the configured IP range), and

after that, the device discovery starts.

After the device discovery is finished, the system will be allocated to the group of initialized devices by default. You can click "Device Tree Diagram" to

reassign it to the group of custom devices. If the auto discovery fails, click "Common Causes for Auto Discovery Failure" to check the common causes

and deal with them manually.

For discovered devices, you can enable the learning stage immediately and start to collect and analyze the power consumption of these devices.

As shown in the following figure:

3.1.2 EXIT THE SYSTEM

Click the "Exit" button on the upper right corner of the system to exit the system.

3.2 HOME

The system homepage shows the power consumption of the day, device overview, power consumption ranking in last 1 hour, power consumption trend,

event list and device status, which allows you to learn about the power consumption as a whole.

Operation Steps: the system homepage will be displayed immediately upon logging into the system, or you may click the "Home" button in the

navigation bar.

3.2.1 POWER CONSUMPTION OF THE DAY

Intuitively show the power consumption of all managed devices of today:

Power Consumption (kWh): the sum of power consumed by all managed devices of the day.

Peak Power (kW): the maximum value of the sum of the powers per minute of all managed devices of the day.

3.2.2 DEVICE OVERVIEW

Takes statistics about the managed devices, including the number of devices with different policy statuses, saved power and power charges.

Additionally, provides the new device discovery feature. By clicking the statistical numbers, you can view appropriate device lists directly, as shown in

the following figure:

Device Discovery

A rapid functionality portal, which is consistent with Device Discovery under Device Management, please refer to the description in Section 3.4 Device

Discovery for details.

Device Statistics

Based on the number of the devices and the number of the device groups, 6-dimensional statistics is done. Click on the number to see a specific

device, please refer to the description in Section 3.5.2 Status Management for detailed status characteristics.

Energy-saving Statistics

The amount of energy saved after enabling the energy saving policy will be converted to the power saved, and later the power charge that can be

saved will be calculated based on the set electricity unit price (the electricity unit price can be configured by clicking the "Set the Electricity Price"

button and enter the setting screen, please refer to the description in Section 3.3.2 Global Configuration for details).

The power saved refers to the difference between the power consumption of all managed server devices running under empirical power and the power

consumption of all server devices under actual running and the value is the cumulative value of power saved by all servers since from the installation

of the Smart Grid software. The software product will record the data of power saved by the server devices every day, even if a server device is

deleted from the software, this cumulative value of power saved will still include the power once saved by the server device.

3.2.3 POWER CONSUMPTION RANKING IN LAST 1 HOUR

The product takes the statistics of power consumptions of all devices in last 1 hour and sorts them in a descending order based on power consumption,

and supports toggle among TOP10, TOP20 and TOP50 views, as shown in the figure below:

3.2.4 EVENT LIST

Paying attention to the system health at any time, the product shows all events in the system including power consumption collection events,

performance collection events, power consumption control events and performance threshold events in a chronological order, as shown in the figure

below:

Double-click an event to see its details.

3.2.5 DEVICE STATUS

Smart Grid software takes the statistics of the operating status of all server devices, and displays them intuitively by pie charts. The contents displayed

include:

(1) The number of devices under normal operating conditions and its percentage out of the number of total devices, as indicated in green;

(2) The number of devices under warning operating conditions and its percentage out of the number of total devices, as indicated in yellow;

(3) The number of devices under error operating conditions and its percentage out of the number of total devices, as indicated in red.

3.3 SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

3.3.1 ACTIVATE SOFTWARE

Smart Grid is a paid software, and you can have free trial for 90 days to manage 50 server nodes without entering the authorization serial number.

After expiration, you can purchase the serial number of the product through Lenovo website, Lenovo customer service number or other channels. You

can continue to use this software after entering the product serial number into the system.

At present, the software provides two types of product serial numbers based on the amount of manageable server nodes by providing product serial

numbers for 5 nodes or 50 nodes separately. This software use the number of the BMC IP addresses of server devices stored in the software to take

the statistics of usage of the authorization serial number. One BMC IP address is corresponding to one authorized node.

Operation Steps: from System Login  System Management  License.

In the License screen, the number of server nodes in which the current system supports management, the number of managed server nodes and the

number of server nodes which are still manageable are displayed.

If the software is activated for the first time, the "Free Trial" message on the top of the system interface will automatically disappear after the successful

activation.

Lenovo Website: http://support.lenovo.com

Lenovo customer service number: 880-810-8888

3.3.2 GLOBAL CONFIGURATION

Perform the global parameter configuration of the system for Smart Grid, including:

Electricity Price: The electricity cost per kWh used for calculating the total electricity bill. Configuring the actual electricity price of machine room (unit

price per kilowatt-hour), which is used to estimate the total power charge with the software.

Performance Store Time: Configure the store time of original performance data. The system provides up to 120 days of storage, default 30 days.

Event Store Time: Configure the store time of all the collected events. The system provides up to 120 days of storage, default 30 days.

Operation Steps: from System Login  System Management  Global Configuration