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| What is
GSM? |
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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. |
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Unified infrastructure
management
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Cohesive interface
for users to manage IT infrastructure
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Remote reboot of equipment
thus maximizing uptime
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Remote access
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Advanced security
feature
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Aggregate Power Loads
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Clear ROI
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Defray Costs
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Allows emergency turn
off plans
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Environmental Monitoring |
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| What are
the main functions of Global Site Management? |
| Monitor
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Power quality |
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Circuit load |
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Environmentals |
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Detects overloads |
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Heat generation |
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| Customize
Views |
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View hardware |
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Organize outlets |
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Organize power strips |
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Group by country,
city, state, data centers and locations |
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Voltage |
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Watts |
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Volt-Amps |
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Current |
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Temperature |
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Integrates with Active
Directory® |
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SNMP |
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RADIUS |
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TACACS |
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Multi-level thresholds |
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Quick alerting |
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Customized alerts |
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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
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Manage (learn more
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Monitor (learn more
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Secure (learn more...) |
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Control (learn more...) |
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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? |
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Management has been successfully serving the following
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Pharmaceuticals |
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Banking and Finance |
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Insurance |
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Medical |
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Manufacturing |
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Government |
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Telecom and IT |
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Collocation facilities |
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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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