Teknoids

We have a server room, owned by and under the control of the
law school. We are investigating options for systems that would do continuous
environmental monitoring (power, temperature, humidity, water, smoke and room
access) of the room, and that would notify us and if needed, do a graceful
shutdown of the servers.

We've looked at several products (e.g., APCC Netbotz, AVTech
RoomAlert 11ER and Sensaphone) , but would be interested to hear what products
others have had success with.

A big complicating factor for us is that our network is
owned and managed by central IT. Switches and routers outside the core are not
supported by backup power or UPS. Because we do not own the network, we cannot
add those protections ourselves (and central IT is unlikely to do it at our
request). Therefore, during a power outage, we have no networking. The products
we've looked at typically depend on a live network to do the monitoring,
notification and shutdown processes. I would be interested to know whether
other campuses have this issue (no networking during power outages) and how
it's dealt with.

thanks

Randy

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Randy Norwood

Programmer/Analyst III

Texas Tech School of Law
Library

E-mail: href="mailto:randy.norwood@ttu.edu">randy.norwood@ttu.edu