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FAQ's
1. What is GSM?
2. Why do we need GSM?
3. What are the main functions of Global Site Management?
4. What do we mean by remote reboot?
5. Can we reboot servers remotely?
6. What are the key features of Global Site Management?
7. What do we mean by aggregate Power Loads?
8. How is GSM's security feature unique?
9. How can GSM manage hot spots?
10. What are the industry applications of Global Site Management?
11. With GSM is it possible to manage heat in data closets too?
12. Why is GSM defined as Power Manager?
13. How can GSM help in reducing downtime?
14. Will GSM allow organizing devices?
15. Why is GSM called a complete solution?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

What is GSM?

Global Site Management is a solution that offers infrastructure management to the IT and facilities manager that need to manage heat and power within data Centers and data closets. GSM offers simple ways to identify and solve the issues associated with heat and power. With the key features of monitoring aggregate power loads, discovering hot spots and integrated security, GSM creates a cohesive interface for users to manage all IT infrastructures.

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Why do we need GSM?

As data centers grow in size and proliferate, we have seen a wide range of applications evolve to take advantage of this environment. Web farms with multiple tiers, multimedia rendering applications, large-scale simulations, and other service-oriented workloads now scale to tens of thousands of servers.

With this remarkable growth in data centers worldwide, power and thermal management will most likely remain important issues for IT and facilities managers into the foreseeable future.

To reap best value of time and money, monitoring and control capabilities must be fully automated to reduce the human costs of implementation.

GSM address the disparate management of today's computing environment by offering a single secure access point for managing all data center equipment.

The main benefits of GSM-
. Unified infrastructure management…
. Cohesive interface for users to manage IT infrastructure…
. Remote reboot of equipment thus maximizing uptime…
. Remote access…
. Advanced security feature…
. Aggregate Power Loads…
. Clear ROI…
. Defray Costs…
. Allows emergency turn off plans…
. Environmental Monitoring
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What are the main functions of Global Site Management?
Monitor 24/7
+ Power quality
+ Circuit load
+ Environmentals
+ Detects overloads
+ Heat generation
Customize Views
+ View hardware
+ Organize outlets
+ Organize power strips
+ Group by country, city, state, data centers and locations
Graph
+ Voltage
+ Watts
+ Volt-Amps
+ Current
+ Temperature
Secure
+ Integrates with Active Directory®
+ SNMP
+ RADIUS
+ TACACS
Alert
+ Multi-level thresholds
+ Quick alerting
+ Customized alerts
+ Color-coded alerts
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What do we mean by remote reboot?

With Global Site Management users can maximize uptime by instantly rebooting IT equipment from anywhere in the world. Remote reboot feature offers automated shutdown or resetting of worldwide equipment.

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Can we reboot servers remotely?
With Global Site Management Solutions, users can remotely reboot servers, routers, Switches and KVM equipment.
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What are the key features of Global Site Management?
With GSM you can trend and monitor power and temperature within the cabinets.
The key features of GSM are
1. Manage (learn more…)
2. Monitor (learn more…)
3. Secure (learn more...)
4. Control (learn more...)
5. Report (learn more...)
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What do we mean by aggregate Power Loads?

With Global Site Management, users can dynamically view power loads for individual cabinets, group of cabinets, row of cabinets or whole data center floor. Aggregate power load is the combined power load used by more than one equipment. Aggregate Power Loads indicate the cooling/ power requirements for expansion of existing IT infrastructure.

With a click of the mouse users can view aggregate power loads within Data Centers, Data closets, Computer rooms, Customers, UPS phases and Power distribution panels.

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How is GSM's security feature unique?

With GSM users can use the existing enterprise security to lock down IT equipment. It allows the security personnel to protect equipment historically left out of their view. By using GSM, administrators avoid unsafe unauthorized access by assigning personnel the rights to control or monitor-attached devices.

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How can GSM manage hot spots?

Data centers are plagued by quickly forming " hot spots, " where hot air from one system can exit one rack and enter another, causing overheating and system failure. Preventing heat from causing catastrophic failure is getting difficult and expensive.

With GSM, IT and facilities personnel can detect and monitor power trends in the cabinets, Data Centers and Data closets hence preventing failures and extending server life.

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What are the industry applications of Global Site Management?
Global Site Management has been successfully serving the following industries:
. Pharmaceuticals
. Banking and Finance
. Insurance
. Medical
. Manufacturing
. Government
. Telecom and IT
. Collocation facilities
. Retail
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With GSM is it possible to manage heat in data closets too?
GSM helps monitor and manage power and heat challenges within the data centers, Data closets and cabinets.
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Why is GSM defined as Power Manager?

GSM allows emergency turnoff plans based upon events such as brownouts, black outs, weather threats or Virus attacks.

IT and facilities managers can manage intelligent Power Strips, reboot equipment remotely and avoid circuit overload when adding new servers and devices.

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How can GSM help in reducing downtime?

With GSM, Network Operations Center (NOC) personnel can be notified automatically via email when power and temperature thresholds are reached. Personnel can determine the location of events by following the visual highlights
Those identify the precise location of the failed equipment.

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Will GSM allow organizing devices?

With GSM, IT personnel and mangers can organize and monitor servers and devices by customer, cabinet or geographic location They can also receive visual highlights of threats and the precise location of their impact. Along with monitoring temperature, IT personnel can monitor humidity, water, fire, airflow and other environmental devices.

GSM allows monitoring multiple temperature readings in each cabinet. This helps in eliminating equipment failure caused by excessive heat therefore leading to prolonged equipment life.

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Why is GSM called a complete solution?

Global Site Management's open architecture provides the necessary building blocks for hardware manufacturers to securely integrate their products, thus creating a cohesive interface for users to manage all IT infrastructures.

Global Site Management provides advanced control and monitoring of Global information technology infrastructure. GSM leads the industry by providing cost effective unified solution for design, deployment and secure management of computer servers, network bandwidth, remote access, power and cooling functions.

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