Active Energy Manager monitors and manages power and environmental conditions in the data center

In this paper, some AEM functions are ported to mobile so that users can http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/13750.html "> Monitor Data Center's energy situation anytime, anywhere, and timely detection of anomalies and make timely treatment.

Active Energy Manager (AEM) is a plug-in for IBM Bae Director, which is used primarily to monitor and manage power and environmental conditions in the data center. It can monitor multiple it devices, such as BladeCenter, power system, System X, and System z servers. In addition, information about the management device can be obtained, such as Power Distribution Unit (PDU), uninterruptible power Supply (UPS), and cooling unit. Energy monitoring and management capabilities implemented through AEM include:

Monitor power usage and temperature; Set a fixed energy consumption threshold based on requirements to optimize energy usage or performance for one or more servers as much as possible, thresholds can be automatically notified, threshold ranges can be specified for hazard and alert level thresholds, energy consumption cost calculations, and support for variable energy conservation, When server utilization is low, automatically reduce energy use (static/dynamic power-saving mode); Automatically adjust fan speed by reading humidity data and ambient temperature of humidity sensor to improve efficiency; Collect alerts and events from facilities related to power and cooling equipment; monitor non- The amount of energy used by IBM and legacy systems.

In addition, AEM can provide energy monitoring and management data externally through REST APIs and Command line Interface two ways to facilitate information mining of the IT infrastructure's energy consumption.

Android Introduction

Android, an operating system based on Linux's open core, is the mobile operating system announced by Google on November 5, 2007. The data center Energy manager described in this article is an application implementation based on the Android platform. The Android platform has five major advantages:

Openness, allowing any mobile terminal vendor to join the Android Alliance; Mobile application access network is no longer controlled by operators; rich hardware choice; developers are not subject to any restrictions. The Android platform provides a very broad and free environment for third-party developers, so it will not be hampered by all kinds of rules and regulations, and seamless integration with Google apps. Google services such as maps, emails, and search have become an important link between users and the Internet, and the Android platform Mobile will seamlessly combine these excellent Google services.

AEM Portability

AEM monitoring function

AEM has two major monitoring functions, both for energy monitoring and environmental data monitoring.

Energy monitoring function is one of the basic functions that AEM provides to customers. By using the Energy Monitoring feature, you can learn about the energy usage of one or several servers in the datacenter. For example: The average input, output power, whether the use of energy management functions. With this data, we can easily know the most consumed and least-consumed servers in the data center, thus developing a reasonable energy management strategy to help users build green and environmental data centers.

Figure 1. AEM Energy Monitoring Chart

Environmental data monitoring can provide customers with data center server inlet temperature and outlet temperature, so as to help users get data center real-time environment temperature, humidity data. Users can find the temperature or humidity in the data center or the CPU frequency of the server is not normal, so take the right measures to avoid problems deepen and cause greater loss.

Figure 2. AEM Environmental Data Monitoring map

Figure 1 and Figure 2 are screenshots of the energy and environmental data monitoring capabilities on Director Server. We can see that AEM can display the current energy consumption and ambient temperature values in real time.