Power Consumption Learning - Lenovo ThinkServer User Manual

3.6.2 POWER CONSUMPTION LEARNING

"Learning" means that the system progressively obtains power consumption changes of the device by collecting the power consumption data of the
device. The system will execute a statistical analysis for the data collected during this period, thereby helps users to develop the most effective energy
saving policy. Some of the devices which have been loaded with energy saving policies may need to relearn.
The system marks the device stage by setting the device status. The status of the device which is at learning stage is "Learning Stage". The status
"Learning Stage" has following characteristics:
The status of all the newly added devices will be set to "Learning Stage" by default.
The device which is at learning stage will only monitor the power consumption, and it can't apply any control policy.
All the devices which are in "Enable Policy" status can be reset to "Learning Stage".
The device status will be automatically set to "Enable Policy" after learning stage.
The system will automatically analyze all the devices that have been applied policies, and will specify the devices that need to re-enter into learning
stage.
There are multiple ways to change the device status in the system, including changing in the wizard advice appears at first login, the device list and the
energy saving analysis. The operation steps in the device list are as follows.
Operation Steps: from System Login  Device Management  Device List, click the "Change Status" button, as shown in the figure below:
This product suggests performing complete learning phrase and analysis for the server devices in order to learn about the trend of power consumption
status of the server devices, and use the data to specify power consumption policies.
Note: please refer to the description in Section 3.5.2 Status Management for the detailed introductions on the server device status and auto conversion
criteria of this product.
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