Monitoring and Alerting Systems
Sentry Power Manager

Sentry Power Manger (SPM) monitors and manages multiple Sentry devices in IP-based enterprise networks. SPM provides a global view of all Sentry CDUs with the ability to survey devices based on their temperature, humidity, current and device status. Besides managing and monitoring all alarm conditions, this information can also be used to provide reporting and trending information.

• A central interface to access multiple network monitored Sentry power distribution units
• Global view of all Sentry power distribution units (Cabinet PDUs) and ability to view devices based on temperature, humidity, current and device status
• Control all networked Sentry cabinet power distribution units
• Control Sentry POPS (Per Outlet Power Sensing) Cabinet PDU on a per outlet basis
• Power information including kW and kW-hour information for billing, power monitoring, trending and power reports
• IT equipment power information can be used to measure the efficiency in your data center for PUE and DCIE, power efficiency ratings from the Green Grid
• Using industry standard SOAP and REST API tools, SPM often acts as a middleware solution, providing power monitoring, management and control solutions down to the device and branch circuit level
• Managing and monitoring alarm conditions
• Power consumption for capacity planning
• Maximize each power circuit by realizing current power being drawn
  

Ease-of-Use

• Auto-discovers each CDU for easy configuration
• Easily create a user interface that mirrors the physical deployment of the data center
• Quickly drill down from a global perspective to the rack’s actual physical location for power and environmental information or if there is a problem (quickly identify the alarm and the physical location of the CD

Multiple Reporting Options

Reporting capabilities to produce reports on critical management parameters such a temperature, humidity, current load and energy consumption

Reports on Current and Power providing the power consumption of each input, total for the rack and/or per square foot (meters) of the rack

Trends/Graphs

• Period: 24-hours to 3 years
• Create trends based on Temperature, Humidity, In-feed Load, In-feed Power, System Watts/unit area, and System Total Power
• Up to 12 parameters can be shown on a single trend  

Appliance Based Architecture

Compatibility

• Server Technology Sentry CDUs with firmware 5.3x or later
• Competitive PDUs (Contact us for more information)

On-Demand Accessibility

• Real-time view of all active system alarms
• Anytime, anywhere web-based views
• Manage thousands of CDUs from a single console

Groups and Clusters

• Create Groups to Group outlets per device, groups of devices (application), or per cabinet
• Create Clusters to group outlets across IP addresses (cabinets), rows of cabinets or the whole Data Center
• Groups and Clusters can be used to reboot or power down a single device or a row of cabinets
• Power information can be provided for billing per Group and Clusters such as kW and kW-h for a single device, groups of devices, a cabinet, rows of cabinets or the whole data center
• kW Information can be used to determine data center efficiency metrics like PUE from The Green Grid

Web Browsers Supported:

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 or later
• Mozilla Firefox 2.0 or later

API (Application Programming Interface)

• Integrates power and environmental information into third party Software Systems, Building Management Systems or other Data Center Monitoring/Management Systems