Do you know what your data center is monitoring?

Effective monitoring solutions are critical to maintaining the network in the data center. No matter whether the Administrator is working in the data center or not, they must set up effective alarm devices. You cannot assume that someone enters the data center to pay attention to the fault prompt displayed on the control screen. This is also why it is so important for administrators to ensure that a complete network management and monitoring solution is applied. There is no network management and monitoring solution in place. You may not know the problem until the phone rings.

What do you need to monitor?

I. Distribution monitoring system:

You must be able to display and save the values of the monitoring parameters of the total incoming lines of each Power Distribution Cabinet in real time, and display and save the working status of each monitored switch in real time. Set the upper and lower limits of voltage and current. When the monitored voltage or current exceeds the preset allowable value, the system diagnoses the event as a fault warning, the main monitoring system should immediately pop up the corresponding alarm page window, and monitor the host to send a multimedia voice alarm or telephone automatic dialing alarm, to notify the personnel on duty or the corresponding supervisor. You can query the historical records of any monitoring object.

Ii. UPS equipment:

Real-time display and storage of running parameters and component statuses that can be remotely monitored by various UPS communication protocols. Determines in real time whether the UPS component has an alarm. When a certain part of the UPS fails or becomes more limited, the monitoring main system immediately displays the corresponding alarm page window, at the same time, the monitoring host sends a multimedia voice alarm or automatic dialing alarm, notifying the personnel on duty or the corresponding supervisor. You can query the historical records of any monitoring object.

Iii. Precision Air Conditioning System:

Monitors the operation status of precision air conditioners, and displays the air conditioner's working conditions with graphical and color changes. An alarm should be triggered when a fault occurs. Monitor and alarm the operation status of air conditioners, such as refrigeration machine, high pressure compressor faults, and filter blocking, and check the operation status of air conditioners. The monitoring system can remotely monitor the Enable and stop of air conditioners and change the temperature and humidity settings.

Real-time display and storage of the operation parameters that can be remotely monitored by each air-conditioning communication protocol, the status of each component, and alarm conditions. When an alarm is triggered, you can identify the alarm by changing the corresponding color in the pop-up alarm window. At the same time, the system will issue a multimedia voice alarm or automatic dialing alarm by phone, notify the personnel on duty or corresponding supervisors. You can query the historical records of any monitoring object.

Iv. Environment Temperature and Humidity system:

Real-time display of the electronic map mode) and record the indoor temperature and humidity values detected by each temperature and humidity sensor, and display the changes in a short period of time. The system can set the upper and lower limits of the temperature and humidity of each temperature and humidity sensor.

When the data detected by any temperature and humidity sensor exceeds the set upper limit or lower limit, the system immediately displays the corresponding alarm window, and monitors the host to issue a multimedia voice alarm or automatic dialing alarm, notify the personnel on duty or corresponding supervisors. You can query the historical records of any monitoring object.

V. fire protection system interface:

Real-time display and storage of the operation parameters that can be remotely monitored by the smart fire host communication protocol, the status of each component, and alarm conditions. When an alarm is triggered, the system sends a multimedia voice alarm or calls an automatic dialing alarm to notify the personnel on duty or corresponding supervisors. You can query the historical records of any monitoring object.

Vi. leakage monitoring system:

When the air conditioner or the water pipes along the air conditioner leak, an alarm window is displayed, and a text box is displayed to indicate the location of the leak. At the same time, the on-duty personnel or corresponding supervisors will also be notified through multimedia voice alarms or automatic dialing alarms. You can query the historical records of any monitoring object.

VII. Access Control Management:

Non-contact induction cards are used to control and record personnel entering the IDC. One card per person, authorized by the card management system, entering different regions. Record and display the management information of the entrance and exit and the switch status of the door. When a person swipe the card to enter the door, the system immediately pops up the corresponding access control Record Management window, at the same time, the corresponding cardholder's photo and management information can be popped up together with the button to go out without showing the information ). The information about the person entering and picking the door shows the card holder's entry time, card number, card holder's name, department, and name of the person entering and picking the door.

Virtualization complicate network monitoring in data centers

When purchasing a monitoring solution, remember that some factors are important, such as virtualization, which will complicate the monitoring process. For example, there are various monitoring applications on the market that can monitor server hardware faults. Such applications may prompt high server temperatures, SMART disk warnings, or cooling fan failures on servers. The problem is that if the monitoring solution cannot know that they are monitoring virtual machines, it cannot know that the hardware system has a potential impact on server availability.

The monitoring software should handle problems with the master server hardware. However, if the primary server is in danger, any virtual machine running on the host will face the same problem. Therefore, if your enterprise wants to deploy a virtual machine, you must identify the physical server and virtual server to understand that the virtual machine runs on that master server. In case of hardware failure, you must also be able to quickly migrate the client server to different master servers.

Finally, management and monitoring are closely related. Only enterprises with sound management capabilities can ensure monitoring plays a role. For example, if the administrator cannot solve a server fault, the monitoring software will tell you how to solve the fault? Therefore, it is very important to combine monitoring and remote management of each server in the data center with the main components of each hardware.