Data Centre / Computer Room Monitoring
Many IT failures are due to external factors such as computer room cooling malfunction, flood or physical intrusion.
Centrinet can provide 365/24 live monitoring of your computer room environment with a human response and predefined response plans – ensuring that threats are detected and responded to in the shorted possible time.
By adding IP cameras to a monitored system, our operators can give live information to your personnel or relevant third parties as an event unfolds, coupled with remote recording of images.
Getting started with monitoring requires a sensor device such as APC Netbotz, a broadband Internet connection and a subscription to Centrinet’s monitoring service. More complex sites can network multiple systems and monitor a vast array of environmental conditions including non-IT plant such as generators, air handlers and heavy plant.
Example of recent projects:
Data Centre environmental monitoring – Completed March 2008
Working with a UK based data centre provider, Centrinet installed and monitored a distributed network of 8 x APC Netbotz environmental monitoring stations around the facility to provide monitoring and warning of the following problems:
- Temperature in hosting areas and common areas
- Humidity in hosting areas and common areas
- Operation of cooling plant and generators
- Fuel leak detection in generator hall
- Water detection in common areas (toilets / rest rooms)
- Water detection in operational areas (water pumps, hosting floors etc.)
Combined with 24/7 live monitoring and a pre-defined response plan, Centrinet ensure maximum availability and minimum disruption should a problem occur.