Green IT Perspective report

To run a Green IT Perspective report

The Green IT Perspective report provides an overview of overnight shutdown compliance. It also provides access to the following reports. The settings of each report can be edited from their page via the Report Options  button in the top left of their page.

The Green IT Perspective report helps with the following management issues:

• assists both network and general managers to reduce wasted power consumption associated with leaving desktop/notebook PCs running 24/7 where they could be safely turned off outside the working day.
• quantifies the power savings, both enterprise-wide and per department. The savings already being achieved by current equipment shutdown behavior is quantified along with the potential additional savings if all appropriate nightly shutdowns were to be performed across the board.
• identifies trends in shutdown policy conformance by department.
• identifies those who should be targeted when looking to achieve better policy conformance and thereby higher savings.
• quantifies the power used by the managed infrastructure devices.
• identifies switches with high or low number/proportions of spare ports.
• quantifies the power used by the switches per used port to evaluate power efficiency.
• identifies servers that are lightly used and might become the target of consolidation initiatives to reduce data center power utilization.

The information in the Green IT Perspective report is gathered against all objects managed on the server, i.e. all the objects in the All Objects View.

Reports included to the Green IT Perspective report:

• Workstations Shutdown Policy Compliance report.
  • provides high-level information on workstations overnight shutdown policy compliance. Data for this report is collected and processed every night. It provides drilldown to details for each monitored workstations group.
• Underutilized Servers report.
  • reveals servers whose utilization is considered low, based on several criteria that the user may choose (CPU utilization, memory utilization, network traffic rate, number of processes, number of users, composite score). It provides drilldown to details about utilization of each server.
• Spare Ports and Power Consumption report.
  • reveals Views containing switches with relatively low densities of utilized ports. This information is useful for effective elimination of underutilized switching hardware. This report offers several sorting methods, including by number of spare ports, by ratios of total/spare ports, and by ratios of consumed energy/number of utilized ports. It provides drilldown to details about each View and switch.
• Known Power Consumption of Devices in Inventory report.
  • displays power consumption of devices in your inventory, with multiple sorting options and drilldown to device details.

Green IT Perspective report details:

To run a Green IT Perspective report:

1. In the Main Menu, click Reports.
2. This will open the Reports page. Click Green Reports.
3. This will open the Green Reports page. Click Green IT Perspective.
4. This will open the Green IT Perspective report.
5. To export the report, click either the Export to PDF, Excel, DOCX or CSV buttons in the top left of the window.
6. To change the details of the report, click Report Options  in the top left of the window. This will open the Green IT Perspective Options page.
   1. If you want to reuse previously saved report values, select it in the Use saved values dropdown field.
   2. Specify the format of the report in the Report format field.
   3. In the Wasted power (kWh) per day per host field, specify the allowed average wasted power per host per day for hosts that are not shut off. For a host that should be used for an 8 hour working day, there should be 16 hours where it can be shut off. If the average consumption of hosts is 100W (a bit higher than most laptops, but lower than desktops), then there would be 1600Wh (1.6kWh) of power associated with those 16 hours.
   4. In the Cost per kWh field, specify the cost per kWh of electricity.
   5. In the Ton of CO2 emitted per kWh field, specify the tons of CO2 generated per kWh. By default, this is 0.000718.
   6. Specify the currency used to display values in the Currency symbol field. By default, this is $.
   7. ENA v17.0 P08 upwards: Specify the time zone to which you want the reporting period to apply. By default, this is set to None, which means that the time zone of the host/consolidation server is used.
7. Click Save to save your report values, Run to run immediately, or click Cancel.