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• Trend temperature and humidity . Real-time data from environment sensors can be collected , retained and trended over time in easy-tounderstand , flexible charts and visual reports . This enables actionable insights such as identifying hot spots , overcooling , or extreme humidity conditions that can be remediated to improve uptime , increase efficiency and reduce energy costs .
• Monitor rack-level power utilization . Live measured readings from rack PDUs , busway tap boxes and other intelligent infrastructure can be monitored to ensure power capacity is not exceeded and to discover and utilize stranded capacity .
• Perform rack-level failover scenarios . Power redundancy can be tracked for each cabinet to ensure power is always available to IT equipment and maintain uptime even if there is a failure on a single power supply or power path .
• Perform power path impact analysis . Live data from power meters can be used to model your power path so you can easily understand exactly how potential moves , adds and changes will affect power utilization and capacity and know that work done in the data center will not cause downtime by overloading circuits .
• Balance three-phase power . Percent imbalance on all three phases can be automatically calculated and you can be alerted to any imbalance in your power path based on thresholds you set to improve uptime and energy efficiency .
• Monitor warning and critical events . Thresholds can be configured for polled power and environment sensor data so you can receive automatic email notifications of warning and critical events like overloaded circuits , high or low temperature or humidity , or three-phase deviations .
• Manage all spares for break / fix . Inventory and assign all your hard drives , cards , memory modules , power supplies , patch cables and any other component , even boxes of screws . Know the exact count of your in-stock and in-use parts and get automatic emails when you need to resupply .
• Manage parts and Bills of Material ( BOM ). When provisioning new equipment for projects in
Given the complex and distributed nature of modern data center and Edge environments , the only way to achieve these objectives is remotely .
the data center , you can track all the necessary parts and quickly draft a BOM .
• Manage all infrastructure projects . Plan , implement and report on any type of infrastructure project . Know the status , costs , start / end dates and requirements of space , power and cooling in one tool .
Bringing it all together
In the new normal , being unable to physically go on site may be an adjustment for some , but ultimately
the objectives remain the same : maintain uptime , increase efficiency of capacity utilization and improve the productivity of people . Given the complex and distributed nature of modern data center and Edge environments , the only way to achieve these objectives is remotely .
This should not be seen as a challenge or obstacle . Rather , the opportunity for improved management of all global sites is enormous for those who deploy secondgeneration DCIM for remote data center management .
Industry experts have spoken and they report 40 % more usage out of facilities and power resources , 50 % improved asset tracking efficiency , 25 % less time managing assets , locations and connectivity , and dramatically reduced potential for human error . p
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