| Publisher | American Power Conversion (APC) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Format | Date added | 05 Jun 2007 | |
| Topics | UPS, Business Management, Data Center, Blades, Supercomputers, Strategic Planning, Sarbanes-Oxley | ||
| Downloads | 426 | ||
Traditional methodologies for monitoring the data
center environment are no longer sufficient. With technologies such as blade servers driving up cooling demands and regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley driving up data security requirements, the physical environment in the data center must be watched more closely. While well understood protocols exist for monitoring physical devices such as UPS systems, computer room air conditioners, and fire suppression systems, there is a class of distributed monitoring points that is often ignored.
This paper describes this class of threats, suggests approaches to deploying monitoring devices, and provides best practices in leveraging the collected data to reduce downtime.
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