Power IQ® DCIM Monitoring Software empowers data center and facility managers to closely monitor and efficiently utilize their existing data center power infrastructure. It provides data center health maps, power analytics, and cooling charts to alert users to potential issues and offers insights into real-time power load, trends, and capacity across all infrastructure levels. A configurable, vendor-agnostic dashboard displays power capacity, environmental health, and energy consumption, granting single-click access to detailed information on rack power, cooling, airflow, and events.

The software facilitates comprehensive environment management, identifying potential trouble spots, saving energy, and maintaining a safe IT equipment environment by integrating with Raritan's intelligent rack PDUs and the Smart Rack Controller. It supports plug-and-play sensors for temperature, humidity, airflow, air pressure, leaks, and vibrations, providing trend analysis, alerts, and energy savings. Energy management capabilities allow users to understand and reduce energy consumption across building meters, UPSs, PDUs, busways, rack PDUs, branch circuits, and IT devices, supporting green data center initiatives and sustainability goals with bill-back reports. Power management features offer real-time monitoring down to individual server outlets (when coupled with PX intelligent rack PDUs), providing enterprise-class power monitoring, utilization trends, capacity analysis, and identification of stranded power to improve uptime.

Power IQ offers vendor-agnostic management for any SNMP-metered device through a single web browser, with pre-installed support for numerous manufacturers and dynamic plugins for additional device types. Key features include centralized rack PDU management, a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) gauge and chart for facility efficiency measurement, vendor-agnostic power control for remote power cycling and improved uptime, real-time configurable dashboards, a Smart Rack View for detailed rack-level information, and a Floor Map View for an interactive, color-coded overview of data center health. The system includes thresholds and alerts for proactive issue detection, a Cabinet Inspector for pinpointing issues at the rack PDU level, and custom report generation with scheduling and email distribution for energy bill-back, ghost server identification, and power reports.

Features & Benefits

• Environment Monitoring: Identifies potential trouble areas, saves energy, and maintains a safe environment for IT equipment through plug-and-play sensors for temperature, humidity, airflow, and more.
• Energy Management: Monitors and measures energy usage across all facility components, enabling energy savings, PUE calculation, and support for green data center initiatives.
• Power Management: Provides real-time power monitoring down to individual outlets, offering utilization trends, capacity analysis, and identification of stranded power to improve data center uptime.
• Vendor Agnostic Management: Manages any SNMP-metered device from various manufacturers through a single web interface, simplifying infrastructure oversight.
• Centralized Rack PDU Management: Consolidates PDU information (names, status, models, firmware) onto a single screen, saving management time.
• Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) Gauge and Chart: Measures facility efficiency in real-time by collecting data from building feeds, IT loads, and non-IT loads.
• Vendor Agnostic Power Control: Allows remote power cycling of individual server power supplies for improved uptime, operational efficiency, and energy reduction.
• Real-Time Dashboards: User-configurable dashboards display live updates for power, environmental health, cooling performance, energy capacity, forecasts, and consumption.
• Smart Rack View: Provides one-click access to detailed rack power, cooling, humidity, airflow, and event information with drill-down capabilities.
• Floor Map View: Offers an interactive, color-coded overview of data center health, displaying active power, temperature, humidity, and rack events on a per-cabinet or facility object basis.
• Thresholds and Alerts: Warns of threshold breaches and sends alerts, enabling proactive issue resolution and increased uptime.
• Cabinet Inspector: Allows single-click drill-down from the floor map to specific rack-level details to pinpoint the source of alerts and events.
• Custom Reports: Enables fast creation, scheduling, and automated distribution of formatted reports for energy bill-back, power consumption analysis, and environmental readings.