4 Small IT Management Tools

That Make Your Life Easier

Table of Contents
• Finally, an End to the Juggling Act............................. 2
• UPS Network Management Card......................... 3
• NetBotz Monitoring System.................................. 4
• Metered Power Distribution Units......................... 5
• StruxureWare Data Center Expert Software......... 6
• Stress Less, Do More................................................. 7
 Finally, an End to the Juggling Act
We’re not in Kansas anymore.
In order to manage your IT environments effectively, conventional wisdom
holds that you actually have to be there to manage it — ready to power cycle
a downed server at the drop of a hat, diagnose a networking issue before
users start screaming — right? Well, maybe that was the way it was done
ages ago, back when your cell phone was, well, just a phone.

How to be in dozens, even hundreds of places at once.

Today, IT managers are freeing themselves from having to maintain and
monitor their distributed IT spaces manually. No longer do they have to tread
the line between fewer resources and stronger demand for 24/7 connectivity.

We’d like to introduce you to four IT management tools that allow you to
IT manager problems?
“be” everywhere your IT is, virtually speaking. With these tools, you can
Use these four
leverage the unblinking eyes of digital sentries to guard uptime in all of time-saving, worry-erasing,
your IT environments. uptime-securing tools to solve
your toughest challenges.

Let’s see what happens when big-picture visibility meets precise control.

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 UPS Network Management Card
Traditional UPS units are a critical part of your IT deployments, but they
can’t be controlled over the network. That means you have to spend your
precious time performing easy-but-necessary tasks. But with a network
management card, your UPS unit is now able to communicate over the
network, and do many of these chores for you.

What you can do with UPS network management cards:

Turn on/off specific outlet banks remotely and gracefully,

without having to shut off the entire UPS unit.

Monitor temperature and humidity of your IT space with

environmental probes.

Receive proactive alerts of environmental, battery, and

maintenance issues.
UPS Network Management Card

Visit our network

management card product
page to find out more
about the UPS with a brain.
Click here!

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 NetBotz Monitoring Equipment
You’ve only got one pair of eyes and ears, so keeping tabs on dozens of
distributed IT spaces can keep them pretty busy. That’s where NetBotz™
audiovisual monitoring equipment comes in: Now, you can see exactly
what’s going on in each one of your IT spaces, remotely and securely, from
the convenience of your laptop or mobile device.

What you can do with NetBotz monitoring equipment:

Monitor at the rack and room levels via cameras,

microphones, and environmental sensors.

Improve security with continuous monitoring of your

entire IT environment.

Enjoy peace of mind from time-saving remote

monitoring capabilities.

NetBotz Camera providing remote

video surveillance over the network To explore our entire
array of security and
evironmental products,
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 Metered Power Distribution Units
If your UPS units can have brains, why can’t your power distribution units?
Metered PDUs can self perform those same easy-but-necessary tasks so
you can save time on the small stuff. But they also provide an extra layer of
security via active metering, capacity planning, and overload alerts.

What you can do with metered PDUs:

Power cycle locked equipment at the outlet level, control To learn about the
outlet access, and sequence IT equipment startups remotely difference metered
with advanced remote management connectivity.
PDUs make,
Reduce the risk of overloading circuits and popping circuit Click here!
breakers with active metering of your power draw at the rack
and outlet levels and built-in capacity planning capability.
Metered Power Distribution Unit
Save space and improve airflow with an ultra-slim,
zero U design.

5 4 Small IT Management Tools That Make Your Life Easier

 StruxureWare Data Center Expert Software
All three tools we’ve discussed sound great, but you might be wondering
how you’ll use all these separate systems coherently. Enter our data
center infrastructure management solution, StruxureWare™ Data Center
Expert software. This software unites your entire IT deployment and the
infrastructure that supports it under one roof. The result? Full visibility into
the status of everything in your IT realm, from a single panel of glass.

What you can do with StruxureWare Data Center

Expert software:
Aggregate the data from network management cards,
NetBotz cameras, metered PDUs, environmental probes,
sensors, and more.

Eliminate silos with vendor-neutral operation.

Balance availability and efficiency with intelligent

capacity management.
StruxureWare Software

To see what else

StruxureWare Data Center
Expert software can do,
Click here!

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 Stress Less, Do More
Simply put, these four management tools, can make your job a lot easier.
Now, you can monitor, maintain, and operate your small IT deployment
more effectively than ever before, with less staff, budget, and time. Connect with us:
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