CenterMind G+ Smart and Proactive Environment Monitoring

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1 CenterMind G+ Smart and Proactive Environment Monitoring

2 Smart and Proactive Environment Monitoring real-time visibility into the state of your computer room or data center environment, 24/7 RiT CenterMind G+ solution is part of the RiT CenterMind Solution for comprehensive data center management. With CenterMind G+, you can green your organization, with high efficiency of environment conditions and lower power consumption, saving substantial energy expenses. Of course, all this comes on top of savings due to the disaster prevention capabilities gained by implementing the solution. The CenterMind G+ environment monitoring solution gives you real-time visibility into the state of your computer room or data center environment, 24/7. No matter where you are, or where your facility is located, you can be instantly and automatically alerted if conditions deviate from defined parameters enabling automated and immediate actions to resolve issues as they arise. CenterMind G+ hardware and software are built to provide maximum flexibility according to your monitoring needs from monitoring one cabinet in a remote branch, or a medium-sized communication room, to a comprehensive solution that provides recommendations during the process of provisioning data center equipment. With CenterMind G+ software and hardware, you can proactively monitor environmental conditions to avoid and resolve issues and optimize power usage for greener, most cost-effective operations. Paint your data center green, save costs Correct environment monitoring of power-hungry data centers is vital for containing energy costs and carbon footprint. Even small variations in temperature, humidity and air pressure can significantly impact energy efficiency. By using CenterMind G+ to monitor these conditions in your data center, you can act proactively to optimize energy usage and respond quickly whenever deviations occur. Moreover, analyzing the environment behavior of your facility across a 24-hour period will show you the different cooling levels needed at different times of the day. The result: you can save unnecessary energy costs and improve the environmental performance of your organization. CenterMind G+ Value Make your data center greener Gain full control of your data center environment, from anywhere, in real time Reduce operational expenses by cutting cooling costs Enhance your disaster prevention readiness Increase the life-span of network equipment Work with a one-stop-shop for a wide variety of environment monitoring needs Improve the security of your data center or other mission-critical facility

3 Disaster prevention starts with environment monitoring Studies have shown that, 75% of business sites go down for at least half a day, up to three times a year, because of computer room environment problems. Likewise, 61% of data centers blame environment issues for at least one incident of downtime annually, each lasting between half a day and three days; and 23% reported at least five such incidents in the same period. Power supply failure and air conditioning failure are the most common environment problems encountered in the computer room. The impact of unreliable power supply is obvious; and the impact of air conditioning failure can also be huge because servers and network equipment are designed to operate only within specific environmental parameters. For example, 50% of server reliability can be lost once a computer room becomes just 7.7 C (18 F) hotter than the norm which can happen in less than nine minutes of a cooling system shutdown. Clearly, the cost of not knowing about a dramatic change in the environmental conditions of your data center or any other mission-critical facility can be catastrophic. The ability to recognize such deviations in a timely way is vital to your ability to avert systems failures and damage. Protect your operations. From anywhere. CenterMind G+ is the ultimate real-time proactive defense solution that enables you to see more, know more and do more to protect your mission-critical sites and facilities. Door sensors for your communication rooms and cabinets will provide an instant indication on whether an unauthorized person is in a place s/he shouldn t be doing something s/he shouldn t. Adding an IP camera will generate a snapshot of this person, helping with identification of the intruder. One stop shop full flexibility CenterMind G+ is modular by design. It offers a choice of hardware configurations, sensors and software options to fit your facilities and your business: Each controller can be run as a standalone system working with dedicated sensors to monitor a single cabinet. Several controllers can work together with CenterMind G+ Lite Software to monitor several racks or cabinets, with management via an easy web-based interface. Users of the full RiT CenterMind Solution can utilize their familiar interface to manage their environment monitoring as one of the elements in their comprehensive data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution.

4 RiT CenterMind G+ Software Integrated Monitoring, Alerts, and Automatic Corrective Actions CenterMind G+ users can choose between three ways to operate the solution, offering you full flexibility to work in the way that makes best sense for your needs. Your small site can be managed directly by logging into the web server of the CenterMind G+ Controller. However, in order to achieve additional benefits, the use of software is needed. CenterMind G+ Lite Software is ideal if you are interested only in monitoring environmental parameters. If you are also interested in gaining full and comprehensive data center management, the use of RiT CenterMind Software is recommended. RiT CenterMind G+ Lite Software full flexibility to work in the way that makes best sense for your needs Manage your environment monitoring easily and flexibly CenterMind G+ Lite Software extends the functionality of the CenterMind G+ Controller s built-in web server and enables easy management of single and multiple CenterMind G+ Controllers and Sensors. It makes setting up and managing your environment monitoring solution intuitive and fast. User-friendly procedures for setup, business policy definition, monitoring and alerting guide you through every step and ensure alerts are delivered in the most effective way. Logging, graphing, reporting, and other advanced capabilities provide you with actionable information in easy-to-understand formats in real time, enabling you to proactively maintain optimal environmental conditions in your computer room, data center or other mission-critical facility. Gain network-wide monitoring capabilities from anywhere With CenterMind G+ Lite Software, you can implement reliable, network-wide monitoring of CenterMind G+ sensors easily and immediately from anywhere, via a single IP address. You simply connect the CenterMind G+ Controllers to your network via Ethernet and the software will easily identify them. This allows you to monitor CenterMind G+ Controllers installed at various locations across your local or worldwide network using a single installation of CenterMind G+ Lite Software. There is no need for a host PC, modem or phone line for each CenterMind G+ Controller, significantly reducing capital costs. Users can connect to CenterMind G+ Lite Software using their favorite web browser, from wherever they are, 24/7. Intuitive and straightforward data visualization CenterMind G+ Lite Software makes analyzing data straightforward. With clear graphs that enable you to recognize spikes and trends, and comprehensive views of all current and historical alerts, you can prioritize actions according to severity, urgency, frequency and other considerations. All reports can be easily exported to Excel, enabling you to manipulate and share the data as needed.

5 RiT CenterMind Software CenterMind Software is the centerpiece of the comprehensive RiT CenterMind data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution. It provides a robust, highly versatile platform for intelligently managing every aspect of your data center with maximum ease, efficiency and productivity. With this one intuitive interface you can efficiently manage all your network assets, automate provisioning and moves, adds and changes (MACs), improve fault management, monitor and control network connectivity, manage your power usage and environment, and more. To maximize your control over your IT environment, CenterMind Software enables complete and integrated management of all your environment, power, capacity, active equipment and connectivity. The real-time information is presented in a visual way, showing the various environment layers and their alert status. This provides at-a-glance visibility into urgent issues and insight that can be used as a part of the decision-making process while provisioning equipment in the data center.

6 RiT CenterMind G+ Hardware RiT CenterMind G+ Controllers Versatile devices for computer room and data center environment monitoring Environment monitoring requirements can vary greatly depending on an organization s size and primary field of operations. RiT offers two CenterMind G+ controller models CenterMind G+ 4 Controller and CenterMind G+ 32 Controller enabling you to choose the capacity and capabilities you need in every mission-critical facility. Each model supports different sensors and offers model-specific capabilities, options and bundled software. Both models are easy and quick to install and simple to use. They connect directly to your Ethernet network, enabling immediate use. The embedded software offers robust capabilities for environmental management and is sufficient for SMBs. Should your needs change due to company growth or other reasons, the upgrade path to CenterMind G+ Lite Software is easy and straightforward. Network-wide control from one software installation Both CenterMind G+ Controller models have a built-in web server, enabling them to send alerts directly from the controller, without the need for additional software. Additionally, both models can work with CenterMind G+ Lite Software and with the full CenterMind Software for data center infrastructure management (DCIM), enabling centralized monitoring. CenterMind G+ Controllers are zero U devices. You can decide whether to mount them on the side or the back of the rack; or alternatively, mount them as a single U device in the cabinet, with additional brackets.

7 RiT CenterMind G+ Sensors With CenterMind G+, you can proactively monitor all the environment conditions that can affect your IT systems operation, including: Temperature Humidity Heat index Power Flood Smoke Air flow Cabinet opening Physical Security When an environment-related issue occurs, CenterMind G+ senses the problem and delivers alert notifications to one or more designated mobile phones, pagers or computers by or -to-sms, or via SNMP trap to your SNMP-enabled monitoring software. This is done directly from the hardware by the built-in web server within the CenterMind G+ Controllers; or it can be handled by the alerting and automatic action capabilities in CenterMind G+ Lite Software or the full CenterMind Software. With the appropriate staff immediately made aware of the issue, automated and immediate actions can be taken to resolve the issue and limit the impact to your operations. And, you can proactively review and analyze monitoring and alert information to prevent and limit the effect of future incidents. Flexible choice of dedicated and standard sensors The different CenterMind G+ Controllers can support various quantities and types of sensors distributed in widely dispersed areas, providing a simple means of bringing the necessary wiring together. Simple implementation using standard connectors recognize the wiring from each sensor, and the controller converts sensor readings into signals suitable for delivery to the monitoring software located anywhere on the network. a simple means of bringing the necessary wiring together With CenterMind G+ you can choose from a wide array of sensors. The CenterMind G+ 4 model supports only RiT sensors. Available RiT sensors include: Temperature Temperature and humidity Door contact The CenterMind G+ 32 Controller supports all RiT sensors noted above as well as almost any kind of sensor from third-party vendors.

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