Top 9 Server Room Environment Monitoring Solutions

Data, which is the most important value of today, is kept and processed by the equipment located in the datacenter. Therefore; the datacenters are considered as the most important locations- the hearts- of the establishments. Like a heart of a person, a system should work uninterruptedly 7/24. Monitoring of any possible factor threatening your datacenter is called as environmental monitoring.

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Environmental Monitoring Systems

The most important points considered in environmental monitoring and management solutions customized for your requirements are as follow:

Server Room Management & Monitoring Software to control devices located in end points of the establishments.

Old and new generation devices have various monitoring and intervention ports. Operation parameters, breakdown and warning details and inventory data of the devices are monitored on these ports. Also devices are intervened remotely via these ports.

Controlling equipment such as operational infrastructure devices, generators, air conditioning systems via monitoring and management ports.

By establishing alarming system for any external possible risks such as temperature, humidity, water leakage, smoke, energy levels, air flows, air quality and etc., any possible risks are avoided without causing any breakdowns or loss.

Following up the entry of the personnel by proximity card reader, fingerprint reader or similar entry-exit control systems located in the entry and exit points of the stations. Controlling the theft and sabotage risks by supporting entry-exit control systems and camera systems.

Centrally monitoring environmental monitoring and management system hardware located in end points. Notifying related personnel by alarming about the existing risks. Keeping the risks under control by intervening remotely when required.

Online monitoring and managing of current infrastructure 7/24 from operation centers. Archiving all values received from end points. Controlling infrastructure and service costs thanks to periodical reporting.

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Top 9 Server Room Environment Monitoring Solutions:

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AVTECH

Monitor real-time temperature, humidity, flood, power and more with instant alerting and historical reporting. AVTECH has been protecting critical facilities and assets for 30 years in over 180 countries world-wide.

ITWATCHDOGS

Temperature & Environmental Monitoring Sensors/equipment for Data Center, Server Room, Computer Room, Cold Storage, Healthcare, Telecom, Research Labs& more. ITWatchdogs manufactures highest quality & reliable environmental systems to monitor temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke, & more.

SERVER-RACK-ONLINE

Server Racks and Server Rack Accessories Rackmount Shelves, Server Cabinets, LAN Racks 19 inch Racks and Network Rack Enclosures.

MONNIT

Monnit is the leader in Low Cost Remote Monitoring Solutions and Wireless Sensing, allowing you to monitor your business or home from anywhere.

SYXTHSENSE

SyxthSense IT room monitoring solutions provide effective way of monitoring environmental conditions of IT environments. IT rooms can be monitored locally by the WebBiter embedded web-server, or on larger scale installation with 10+ IT rooms the products can be linked to the netbiter.net monitoring platfrom.

PAESSLER

PRTG monitors all the particularities of your server room: temperature, humidity, movement, hardware, software.

CYBERPASS

With CyberSRM (Server Room Monitoring), I.T administrators and managers are provided with a real-time monitoring solution with the ability to monitor the status of their server room environment.

EDAC

Experts in Industrial Electronics, monitoring and control equipment, including ScadaPhone alarm diallers and industrial Ethernet switches.

GEISTGLOBAL

Geist offers an extensive selection of industry-leading PDU power products, services, software and technology to its customers for data center management.

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Solutions for the problems by using environment monitoring systems

Factors such as temperature, humidity, water leakage and smoke increase should be monitored via sensors. Values received from these sensors should be gathered on an environmental monitoring device and when the threshold values are exceeded; it should give alarm and be archived accordingly.

In case of alarms, authorized personnel should be notified via e-mail, SMS or voice call.

Remote monitoring system should execute all these alarming, archiving and monitoring processes without any need for a computer.

Devices such as air conditioners and fans should be turned on/off via management ports of environmental monitoring device.

Management ports should be directed automatically in case of alarms. For example when temperature increase alert is received, auxiliary air conditioner should automatically turns on.

Users with different authorizations should access all monitoring, management and configuration processes.

Retrospective reports should be created based on archived values. External factors related to IT rooms should be monitored retrospectively thanks to these reports.

Cameras located in the datacenter via environmental monitoring system should be monitored. In case of alarms, photo and video records should be extracted from cameras automatically.

Alarm values should be entered in two phases for each sensor. First threshold should imply that sensor value reaches to the critical level; second threshold is for alarm level.

Environmental monitoring system should communicate with devices such as air conditioner and generator uninterruptedly. This interface is specific to the device to be monitored and could be one of the universal standards such as RS-232, RS-485, SNMP, ModBus. Environmental monitoring system should have the ports supporting all these standards.

Environmental monitoring system should make energy follow up.

Environmental monitoring system should be expandable. So it should serve for all kinds of IT rooms including a small datacenter or a large data center.

If an establishment has more than one datacenter, different type of environmental monitoring systems will be located in each datacenter. Data received from different environmental monitoring devices via central monitoring and management software located in the headquarters of the establishment should be collected on a single interface and users can easily follow up accordingly.

The most important factor to make these datacenters with very delicate specifications operate seamlessly is the environmental monitoring systems.

The other factors threatening your system are:

• Power cuts and electrical fluctuations
• Temperature and humidity changes
• Water leakage
• Smoke
• Unauthorized interventions
• Breakdowns in back up equipment such as uninterrupted power supply , FM-200, air conditioner and generator

The target of the environmental monitoring devices is to control these factors and warn the user and the authorized employee in case of any possible problem. These warning could be made not only by sirens but also via e-mail or SMS. Hi-tec environmental monitoring systems warn the user about any possible problems. In addition to this, it should directly intervene the problem by operating the precautions set your establishment and secure your system in a fastest and safest manner.

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The only target of the environmental monitoring devices is not only to control these factors and warn the user and the authorized employee when required but also let the users follow up the values in anytime and anywhere.

The task of the environmental monitoring system is not limited to the factors that may threaten your system. Lately, monitoring ports are integrated to the new generation devices such as uninterrupted power supply, air conditioner or etc. Thanks to these monitoring ports operation parameters, alarm and warning data of these auxiliary equipment are monitored.

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Today, devices used in the systems rooms generate the biggest portion of the energy consumption of the establishments. Follow up of the energy consumption may enable you to detect the unproductive devices and replace them with a more productive ones. As a result of changing these unproductive devices, companies may have incredible energy savings and comply with Green IT.

Minimum specifications of environmental monitoring and management systems

Seamless operation 7/24 and precise monitoring – software enabling the users follow up the values tracked. – temperature control- humidity value control – control disasters such as flood and fire- Energy value control- integration with devices like UPS, generator, air conditioner, remote control feature- reading values received from the devices in datacenter and submitting to the users if required.

Entry-exit controls .- visual or both visual and audio room follow-up- sending notification via SMS, e-mail or sirens to the users in case of abnormal situations.- alarming values can be set as per the requirements of the user.- in case of any negative situations, it should warn the user. Also it should avoid these cases happen via defined manager functions or minimize the losses if any problem occurs. – it should be upgraded according to the needs of your system or be expandable alongside with your datacenter. – if there are more than one datacenter, the controls for these rooms should be monitored and managed centrally.- it should record previous values and report these values when required.