How to show amps from Geist XPBM339-103M14TL21 RPDU in DCO?

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This question was originally posted on DCIM Support by Christopher Slama on 2018-10-18

Hi,

We have a number of Geist XPBM339-103M14TL21 RPDU in our DCE server, we see an amp value for each circuit on the RPDU. They read:

Circuit 1 Amps

Circuit 2 Amps

Circuit 3 Amps

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When I link these RPDU within the DCO server they do not display any power data. I suspect this is because the amps need to be converted and it doesn't know this.

The DDF files I have installed for Geist are:

Geist (verson 4)

Geist EM8 (version 1)

Please let me know what steps I need to take to be able to show power values in the DCO server. We have been successful with showing the values from our APC RPDUs.

Thanks,

Chris

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This answer was originally posted on DCIM Support by Jef Faridi on 2018-10-19

Hi Chris,

For gathering Amps data from a DCE device, DCO is queering the DCE for all sensors, with a specific type, for the given devices. It will then gather readings for each of the matching sensors. There are 4 different sensor types, that DCO matches on for Amps on DCE. They are the following:

Amp Sensors:

MODULE_BREAKER_CURRENT

OUTPUT_CURRENT

OUTPUT_CURRENT_TOTAL

INPUT_CURRENT

For power, the following sensor types are matched:

Power Sensors:

OUTPUT_POWER_WATTS

OUTPUT_POWER_TOTAL_WATTS

MODULE_OUTPUT_POWER or MODULE_BREAKER_POWER

For more details please see the following page: DCE Sensor Mapping to DCO

If your device doesn't hold any sensor, of one of the above sensor types, DCO will not be able to retrieve the data. You can test it for your self, using the SOAP services on the DCE, with the following SOAP request:

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv=“http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/” xmlns:isx=“http://www.apc.com/stdws/xsd/ISXCentralSensors-v2">
  <soapenv:Header/>
  <soapenv:Body>
     <isx:getSensorsByTypeRequest>
        <isx:ISXCSensorType>?</isx:ISXCSensorType>
     </isx:getSensorsByTypeRequest>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Replace the “?” with one of the four above mentioned types.

Kind regards

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Christopher Slama on 2018-10-19

Is it common practice to leave out points when you build a DDF file?

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Greg Sterling on 2018-10-19

Hello Christopher, in some cases DDF's were created specifically for a customer who used Data Center Expert but not Data Center Operation so in those cases the variables required for DCO may not have been included.

Regards

Greg Sterling

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

This comment was originally posted on DCIM Support by Christopher Slama on 2018-10-19

I was thinking something like that was the case. I'll start with placing a DDF request.

Thanks Greg

DCIM_Support · ‎2020-07-05

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