Marketing description

Of the many cogs and wheels that help run your business or enterprise, power is one of the most critical. Designing and implementing a fail-safe power management solution is not trivial. Missing or broken pieces can result in excessive downtime.
APC products are designed to proactively identify and correct power problems before downtime occurs. APC's Global Services Group helps you by supplementing your power protection solution with comprehensive, end-to-end service and support.

Key selling points

• Inventory management
• Alarms within physical layout
• Enterprise platform
• Live dashboard
• PUE/DCiE calculator
• Guided network management
• Blade server support
• Inventory report
• CAD integration
• Grid-based references
• Import InfraStruxure configuration
• Recommended actions
• Multiple rooms
• Customizable view
• Virtual store room
• Floor layout view
• Rack front view
• Global asset search
• Asset library
• Custom devices
• Organizational view
• Shared data model
• Vendor neutral
• Electrical room support
• Integrated tenant billing
• Tenant impact analysis
• Cage visualization
• Measured cage power
• Audit trail 3D cage view
• Space report
• Power report
• Power receptacle report
• Tenant inventory report
• User roles
• Multi-user access
• Password security
• Read-only access

Product features

• Inventory management
  Shows device data within the physical layout for instant access to device details and asset attributes, and overview of data center operations.
• Alarms within physical layout
  Provides real-time device failures within floor layout and rack front view for live status of data center operations.
• Enterprise platform
  High availability with failover redundancy through a clustered setup and load balancing, ensuring a mission critical system with no single point of failure.
• Live dashboard
  Gain transparency to data center key performance indicators through easily configured web dashboards, displaying customizable management-level information.
• PUE/DCiE calculator
  Provides power usage effectiveness (PUE) or data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) value for information on daily utilization of energy.
• Guided network management
  An overview of the data center network paths and their interconnections, provided through guided input for reduction of human error.
• Blade server support
  Mirror the exact data center setup, by modeling blades within their blade enclosures.
• Inventory report
  Includes structured information on all rack-mount devices, organized by device type, age, manufacturer and properties for quick overview of all current devices within a data center.
• CAD integration
  Enables import of computer aided design (CAD) drawings in order to quickly reshape the room and convert CAD cage drawings into the DCIM model, including toggle CAD layers to show all available facility information.
• Grid-based references
  Flexible approach to floor coordinates enabling data center operators to adopt a customized location identification scheme.
• Import InfraStruxure configuration
  Speed deployment of the software by importing InfraStruxure designer solution including architecture capabilities and constraints, floor and rack layout.
• Recommended actions
  Intelligent alarm descriptions coupled with recommended resolutions reduces the need for training and mean time to repair.
• Multiple rooms
  Provides the option to display multiple rooms on the same floor plan to accurately depict and navigate large facilities.
• Customizable view
  Flexible application layout through drag and drop to suit the individual needs of the users.
• Custom devices
  Quickly customize library assets to your specifications in just 2 clicks, amending custom properties such as power requirements and MAC address etc.
• Organizational view
  Provides location-based drill-down for a logical model of the data center, where data center rooms can be organized under regions, countries, campus, sites, buildings and rooms.
• Shared data model
  Ensure mature and synchronized data throughout the entire data center life cycle.
• Electrical room support
  Monitor capacity and plan changes for centralized power equipment in areas outside of the main data center floor plan.
• Cage visualization
  Visualize current available space with anonymous tenant data during the pre-sales phase for planning potential new customer cages, reserving space and supporting the sales process.
• Space report
  Instant overview of current space capacities, identifying the sellable, occupied and reserved space, as well as space identified as used internally.
• Power report
  Outlines the total capacity vs. the sold capacity and measured load per site for a complete overview of current power capacities.
• User roles
  Enable location and feature-based access through multi-user login and individual levels of user roles.
• Multi-user access
  Enables several users to carry out work on the application simultaneously and merging changes from different users seamlessly.
• Password security
  User-selectable password protection prevents unauthorized access, authorized against LDAP and Active Directory servers.
• Read-only access
  Share access without risking unauthorized configuration changes.