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Integrating Environment Monitoring & Data Center Management

1. What are AssetGen & Sensorium iBMS?2. Why link them together?3. What is the difference between monitoring and management?4. How does Sensorium present data center status and loading5. How AssetGen support data center management and capacity6. Examples of planning and change impact analysis7. How the “integration” works in practice8. Summary of results

David Cuthbertson CEO, AssetGenJohn Hardy CTO, Advanced Desktop Solutions

Visio is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation- All rights acknowledged

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Why Link the Two Systems

• Sensorium iBMS monitoring is focused on environment and fixed infrastructure providing monitoring, alerting and usage statistics– Reporting and alerting is vital to give feedback on actual usage– Often the view is limited to facilities / data centre teams – The environment doesn’t change as rapidly as the IT systems

• AssetGen focuses on the management and controls covering fixed and IT infrastructure, presenting different information sets for project and operations teams.– Past, current and planned states of servers, racks, power, networks– Device inventory, connectivity and change management– Visualisation (Visio) of floors, racks, networks, power, services

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Different Toolset Focus – ExamplesSensorium iBMS AssetGen

Fault/ThresholdAlerting

Realtime PowerMonitoring

RecoveryPlanning

AuditTrails

Work OrderPlanning

InventoryManagement

Billing &Charging

Capacity Planning & Reporting

Device Connectivity(Power, LAN, SAN)

BusinessImpact View

Network TopologyView (Visio)

Rack LayoutView (Visio)

LoadingHistory Current

Status

Actual loadingBy Power Strip

ChangeManagement

Power TopologyView (Visio)

Temperature &Humidity Monitoring

Environment Monitoring & Alerting Data Centre Management & Control

CCTV, Security, FireIntegration

An alert has come in –what and who is affected?

A PDU is overloadedWhat are my options?

Does the server take as much power as expected?

What is the actual usagevs planned usage?

We’re running on UPS -what is non-critical?

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Sensorium iBMS In More Detail

Rack power status

Power totals by PDU, phase

Data Centre total usage

Rack threshold status

Web BrowserView

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Example Power, Alerts, Usage History etc.

Actual power, volts, amps

Link to CCTV and alerts

Usage reports by day, week, etc.

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Sensorium iBMS SummarySensorium iBMS

Sensorium Benefits- Real time monitoring - Customised for each facility- Easy to use- Alerting against thresholds- History of actual usage- Links to different types of power,

temperature, humidity inputs- Can give usage by power port

AssetGen provides the IT device information to help interpret results, identity risks and plan power usage (plus a few other things)

PDU

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UPSIncoming Feeds

CCTV

Access Facilities

IT Platforms

AssetGen

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AssetGen in More Detail

3. Visio floor & rack plans

2. Find racks with space, power, etc.

1. Capacity reports space, port usage

5. Planned install of server

6. Usage and status of ports

4. Coloured by role, owner etc.

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AssetGen in More Detail (2)

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3. All devicesconnected to theSwitch, SAN, PDU

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Connectivity & Path Management

Capacity & Work Flow- Rack space- Power utilisation- Network ports (SAN, patch also)- Hardware fill- Planned work & build orders

Risk & Impact Control- Impact of hardware changes- Identify single points of failure- Service impact of hardware / software changes- Components supporting critical systems- Recovery and continuity plans

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AssetGen Example 1 – Adding a ServerInstalling a server and connecting it to infrastructure resources in AssetGen takes

2-3 minutes in total – compare this to existing methods with Excel, Visio etc.

Fixed Infrastructure(Cabling, Power, Cabinets, Rooms, Buildings)

Hardware Infrastructure ComponentsPCs, Network, Servers, UPS, Storage, Other

Virtual Infrastructure ComponentsPCs, Network, Servers, Storage, DBMS

ApplicationsPC or server based

ServicesEnd user, infrastructure, supplier

Business ProcessesDepartmental, Company

Sensorium AssetGen

Adding a server to AssetGen- Updates the rack diagram- Updates the rack capacity- Updates the inventory- Links the server to power, networks, KVM, SAN- Updates infrastructure capacity reports

space, network, SANpower utilisation reports

- Updates planned activities (work orders)- Updates an audit trail

Will also update Visio diagrams- Rack diagram- Network, power, SAN topology- Floor plans- Service maps

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AssetGen Example 2 – Change Impact Analysis

Mapping technical and service dependencies to critical components with AssetGen means it takes a few seconds for projects or operations staff to;

1. Identify the impact of a fault or overload indication from monitoring systems such as Sensorium iBMS, NMS or server dashboards

2. The potential impact of a server reboot or fault on software, users and services

3. The devices and services affected by a reboot of an infrastructure device such as a network switch, San controller, blade chassis

4. The hardware and services impacted by a planned (or unplanned) outage on a power PDU or circuit breaker

5. The hardware delivering the top 10 critical services (for DR, charging, etc.) and single points of failure at power, network and functional levels

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Linking AssetGen and Sensorium iBMS

Both systems have many strengths, so where does integration give us additional benefits or capabilities?

Reduce fault finding time by automatically linking from Sensorium cabinets or power strips to access AssetGen device, connectivity and services dataIdentify current usage during planning activities by automatically linking from AssetGen cabinets, power strips to get real time power, temp etc. from SensoriumAutomatically link from Visio diagrams of floorplans, rack layouts and power diagrams to access real time data from SensoriumImport data from Sensorium into AssetGen to combine actual with planned power capacity data, avoiding over-engineeringProduce power usage reports from AssetGen for billing and charging by technology, users/customers, services based on actual usage from SensoriumCorrelate changes in actual power usage with changes in IT equipment installs / removals / transformation projects

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Enhancing Sensorium iBMS with AssetGen data

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Enhancing AssetGen with Sensorium iBMS data

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Making it Happen

It took less than a day to prove the integration worked between AssetGen and Sensorium iBMS, enabling hyperlinking between systems and exchange of data.

Existing AssetGen and Sensorium installations can leverage more value from the current systems data.

Power and IT infrastructure changes can be assessed and optimised much more easily, with risks easily determined by combining actual data with planning tasks.

Warnings and alerts from the BMS system can be more quickly interpreted for incident and impact management.

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Case Study Summary

Monitoring systems are designed to present current status, loading and past utilisation, so integration with AssetGen enables interpretation of complex infrastructure alerts and change impacts.

The integration techniques described here also work with monitoring, discovery and work flow systems spanning multiple technologieseg. Power, Network, Servers, Storage, Systems, Services

For more product details of Sensorium iBMS & AssetGen contact:

John Hardy David CuthbertsonAdvanced Desktop AssetGen

www.advanceddesktop.com www.assetgen.comTel +44 (0)208 527 2819 Tel +44 (0)870 950 4651