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The IBM Enterprise C13+ and IBM C19 PDU+ DPI and ultra-density units are
intelligent PDUs that are supported for use with Active Energy Manager. They
report power and thermal trending.
In addition, Active Energy Manager allows a user to associate an IBM Director
managed object with an iPDU outlet, allowing the power consumption for the
server to be displayed in the Active Energy Manager Console. In cases where
there are multiple power supplies for a server and each is plugged into a different
iPDU in the rack, Active Energy Manager adds the different values together to
display a graph of the total power being consumed by the server. Through this
iPDU support, Active Energy Manager can monitor power usage on earlier
servers that do not have power metering built in.
Additionally, Active Energy Manager monitors how many amps are being
consumed by an iPDU overall, and how this compares to the maximum current
that the iPDU can support.
Users are alerted when an iPDU approaches its capacity.
Note: IBM DPI C13+ and IBM DPI C19 PDU+ PDUs were available before the
announcement of Active Energy Manager. Any existing versions of these
iPDUs in the field must be upgraded to the November 7th, 2007 version of the
iPDU firmware so that Active Energy Manager can support them.
6.8.4 Assembling of intelligent PDU
The IBM enterprise intelligent PDUs are available in three outlet versions for
power distribution. The figures in this section show the devices.
IBM Enterprise DPI C13 PDU+
Figure 6-33 shows the back and front of the Enterprise DPI C13 PDU+
(part number 39M2816).
Figure 6-33 IBM Enterprise DPI C13 PDU+ UTG connector, part number: 39M2816
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