Pay Attention To Your IT Data Center's EnvironmentAVTECH's Room Alert Lineup Provides The Right Mix Of Features To Meet Any Organization's Data Center Needs
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Environmental conditions in today's dense IT data centers are a major concern facing managers who already have too many responsibilities. Power outages, air conditioning failures, or blocked ventilation can cause temperatures to rise to 85 degrees or higher in minutes. Room temperatures above 85 degrees will damage equipment and put data at risk.
AVTECH Software's Room Alert lineup of advanced computer room environmental monitors watch your data center in real time, alerting you to problems and taking automatic corrective action.
Wherever environmental monitoring is important, Room Alert acts like a silent watchman to alert the right people at the right time and by the right method when environment changes occur.
Temperature, Humidity & More
The Room Alert lineup comes in four models the 7E, 11E, 24E, and 26W. All are designed specifically to assist with monitoring computer room temperature, humidity, power, flooding, and much more in multiple locations. Room Alert can monitor rooms ranging from small, unmanned phone or wiring closets to large, corporate data centers; Room Alert is affordable yet expandable and powerful enough to monitor extremely large or even multiroom data center environments.
The Room Alert provides an easy-to-use solution that does not require a host PC to operate. Hardware installation is quick and easy: Plug Room Alert into your network via Ethernet and place the wireless or other external sensors in the desired locations, allowing for nearly immediate IT environment monitoring from virtually anywhere.
You can set up Room Alert via the built-in Web server interface in minutes. Within the Room Alert Web server interface, you can change configuration settings, set up alert thresholds, and calibrate sensors. Firmware updates are easily completed with the click of a button, ensuring that your Room Alert ID Box is running with all the latest features and enhancements.
Real-Time Insight
The real-time insight available via Room Alert is invaluable for knowing when and where important or critical environment changes or extremes occur. Room Alert allows temperature, humidity, and sensor status logging, advanced alerting, Fahrenheit or Celsius, temperature and humidity values in alerts, high and low watermarks, wireless sensor monitoring, and more.
Sensors can be easily added to any available set of switch sensor contacts on the Room Alert ID box. With all Room Alert models, you can purchase additional sensors to monitor temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke, motion, sound, air flow, room entry, panic buttons, and more.
With the Room Alert 26W, AVTECH's newest addition to the Room Alert family, you can add WiSH (Wireless Sensor Hub) sensors. These battery-powered sensors communicate via a secure, private protocol that is ZigBee compatible, letting you monitor large numbers of sensors indoors and out up to 250 feet away, so you can monitor virtually anywhere, including inside a rack cabinet, air vent, subfloor, or other location.
With the Room Alert, you'll:
Save your organization valuable time and money by eliminating the expense of running cables, preventing disasters, reducing downtime, streamlining IT recovery, and protecting your data center.
Allow staff to be more responsive, taking action to save data and equipment before environment changes can cause problems or disasters.
Create a more lights-out IT environment, without the need for onsite staff to monitor temperature, humidity, and other environment changes in person.
Real-Time Readings
The power behind the Room Alert product is the Room Alert's built-in Web server or the bundled PageR Enterprise software. PageR lets you monitor real-time temperature and humidity, high and low watermarks, wireless sensor status, environment sensor status, current alarm status, and much more on Room Alert boxes and other devices network-wide.
PageR Enterprise watches anything across your network to notify remote IT staff when important events occur. When events occur or thresholds are passed, PageR automatically sends out event status information through a modem or network connection to a mobile phone, pager, PDA, email, IM, log file, Web page, console station, audio alert, or other means. Alert notifications communicate current event status, and PageR can start applications or run VB and JScript scripts or commands as a response to an object going in or out of an alarm state.
Know immediately when important or critical server and network events occur that could lead to expensive downtime or lost worker productivity.
Monitor across an unlimited number of server and OS types, across the department or an organization's worldwide network. Watch anything network-wide.
Monitoring of events can be scheduled down to any one minute a month with dependencies established to control what alerts are sent, when, and in what order. This alert filtering prioritizes alerts to reduce 'alert flooding' during a crisis.
View monitoring status in real time via PageR's built-in Web browser interface from anywhere.
Run PageR as a service to ensure an always-on monitoring solution with automatic restart on reboot.
Easily integrate environment products like TemPageR or Room Alert to monitor physical data center conditions like temperature, humidity, power, flood, smoke, and more.
Enjoy easy, immediate contact with IT staff by using PageR's interactive or manual paging and notification utility. Contact information is protected and interactive use is logged for security.
With PageR, you can save time and money while making your department more responsive to IT events and threats. PageR delivers knowledge and power to your staff and managers, giving them the advantage of time and information.
AVTECH Software, Inc.