environmental monitoring and protection of server rooms

Submitted by Norwood, Randy on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

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

 

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RE: environmental monitoring and protection of server rooms
Submitted by mperna on Thu, 02/12/2009 - 1:13pm.

Low cost but will do the job href="http://sensaphone.com/">http://sensaphone.com

 

Matthew Perna MCSE

Assistant Director for Information
Technology

Touro Law Center

225 East View Drive

Central Islip NY  11722

 

Email: Mperna@tourolaw.edu

Phone: 631-761-7072

Cell:     631-708-6418

 

Support: IT@tourolaw.edu

Phone: 631-761-7070

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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

 

 

--

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Randy
Norwood

Programmer/Analyst
III

Texas Tech
School of Law Library

E-mail:
randy.norwood@ttu.edu

 

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