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Power Management Terminology

The following table describes power management terminology.

Term	Definition
Actual power	The input power measured in watts. This is the actual power consumed by all the power supplies in the system.
Permitted power	The maximum power that the server can at any time.
Allocated power	The input power in watts allocated to installed and hot pluggable components.
Available power	The input power capacity in watts. Amount of power available to the server from the chassis.
Threshold notification	A configurable value to post an event message when power consumption exceeds a threshold value in watts. Two threshold values can be set (for example, one as a minor warning and one as critical).

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