Set the System Power Budget

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Before You Begin

Before setting a system power budget, review the power management features described in the following article:

Enable power budgeting on the system:

% snmpset SNMP_agent sunHWCtrlPowerMgmtBudget.0 i enabled

Set an upper limit for the system power consumption:
```
% snmpset SNMP_agent sunHWCtrlPowerMgmtBudgetPendingPowerlimit.0 i 
 value sunHWCtrlPowerMgmtBudgetCommitPending.0 i true
```
where value is a power limit in watts between the installed hardware minimum and the allocated power. The default power limit is the current peak permitted power.

Specify how many seconds the system power can exceed the power limit (see Step 2) before a violation action is taken:
```
% snmpset SNMP_agent sunHwCtrlPowerMgmtBudgetTimelimit.0 i value
sunHwCtrlPowerMgmtBudgetCommitPending.0 i true
```
where value is an integer between -1 and 2147483647. A value of -1 instructs the system to use the factory-specified default value. A value of 0 indicates that a hard cap should be used. Some systems do not support hard capping. For more information, refer to Setting SP Advanced Power Capping Policy to Enforce Power Limit in Oracle ILOM Administrator’s Guide for Configuration and Maintenance Firmware Release 3.2.x.

Set a violation action to define what the system should do when the power limit has been exceeded beyond the specified time limit:

% snmpset SNMP_agent sunHwCtrlPowerMgmtBudgetTimelimitActions.0 i 
none|hardPowerOff sunHwCtrlPowerMgmtBudgetCommitPending.0 i true