Server Rooms, Equipment Rooms: Monitoring & Alarm for Optimal Conditions

The viewLinc system is designed for continuous monitoring & alarming system for server rooms, IT and equipment. The system uses Veriteq data loggers, which communicate via your existing networks (see Connectivity Diagram).

Easier to set up and use than any other system, viewLinc is immune to power or network failures, keeping your Server rooms and Equipment rooms safe 24/7.

IT Equipment & Server Rooms: Monitoring for Optimal Conditions

The risk is common, but the costs are huge. To protect server rooms and computer equipment, you need to maintain optimal conditions of temperature, humidity and other environmental parameters.

Maintaing optimal conditions in server and equipment rooms extends the life of all computer and networking equipment. Many companies learn too late that even a few degrees can blow a server chip or permanently damage microprocessors. The costs associated with replacing ruined equipment, lost business, irretrievable data and extra personnel time expended fixing the problem are huge.

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Temperature Ranges for IT/Server Equipment

For most server and equipment rooms, the temperature shouldn’t go below 10°C (50°F) or above 28°C (82°F), at the extremes. Ambient temperature is usually maintained around 20-21°C (68-71°F). The operational details of your HVAC system, seasonal and geographic factors, as well as the amount of time your rooms are left unattended, will determine how you set up your IT monitoring and alarming system.

For critical manufacturing or medical equipment, the manufacturer’s notes will have optimal environmental conditions noted; if they don’t, call the manufacturer.

Special Considerations

In most buildings, the air conditioning is separate from the server system so there's no way of knowing if the air conditioning goes down until a change is felt. When the building is unoccupied, this is little help. However, even under normal circumstances, temperatures fluctuate daily, as an effect of season or due to heat loads created by equipment.

A common misconception is that HVAC systems work at a constant level, but it’s not uncommon for air conditioning to automatically power down at night and on weekends. Many a brand new server system has had its life shortened by a web server that fires up when the business day begins in another time zone and the nighttime AC can’t cool the room sufficiently. Such subtle daily overheating is often the cause of common intermittent faults and system slow-downs.

Failsafe Alarming & Recording

Server and equipment rooms require 24/7 monitoring, preferably with an alarm system that can automatically contact appropriate personnel by various means. Veriteq's monitoring and alarming system is the easiest to set up and use. And, unlike other monitoring systems, Veriteq’s system is immune to power or network failures.

No Data Gaps

A common scenario with other monitoring systems: you come in Monday morning only to find there was a power glitch over the weekend. You have no idea how long or by how much the temperature (and humidity if you monitor both) was out of spec. But, later in the week, breakdowns start to occur across the system.

With most other systems, if there’s an interruption in power or network, records for that time span do not exist. Our sensors have both wrap memory and a 10-year battery, so the data on monitored IT rooms is always available. You'll always have a record of what happened when in your critical environments.With Veriteq, you receive an alarm via phone, email or pager and because each sensor has its own memory and battery.

viewLinc Features

Each sensor is compact, and can be used to map out the hot spots in a server room, then placed to monitor vulnerable locations as well as ambient conditions.

• Sends immediate visual, e-mail, phone, or audible alarms
• No lengthy wiring - system communicates via PoE or WiFi over existing networks
• By far the easiest system to set up and deploy: viewLinc automatically detects data loggers hosted on the network
• Automatic downloading of data on a user-determined schedule
• Multiple level alarms with user-defined thresholds
• Analog Devices can monitor other parameters: Differential Pressure, Light, Water, and more.

About viewLinc

Veriteq data loggers connect to a network through a Host PC or an ethernet-to-serial device server. Once connected, the viewLinc software continuously and shares this data across a network with other viewLinc-configured computers (see viewLinc Connectivity Options). Remote viewing of data can be done using an Internet browser on your network.

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