It’s surprising that many IT professionals are stingy about environmental monitoring in the server room. Many IT specialists ask for temperature sensors from our line of environmental monitors, however aren’t really interested in any other environmental monitor like humidity sensors, airflow sensors, power monitor, or water sensors.
Of course it’s important to monitor temperature with multiple temperature sensors place in key areas in the server room to monitor both hot spots and ambient temperature. This will give administrators an idea of problems in airflow. Stabilizing temperatures for servers will extend the lifetime of the electrical equipment which obviously saves money. Maintaining proper temperatures for the server room will also prevent meltdowns or fires.
However, placing an airflow sensor in specific areas will help managers to create a cooling system that complements the air conditioning. An airflow system in the server room will help remove hot spots and circulate cool air throughout the server room. This will allow the air conditioning to be turned to lower settings, saving on energy expenses.
Temperature monitoring and airflow monitoring should also include humidity monitoring, smoke detection, power monitoring and water leak monitoring to make the environmental monitoring system complete. The remote environmental monitoring device is SNMP enabled and has its own IP address which allows sensoring conditions to be web-configurable and observable logistically and graphically online.
Damage caused by overheated servers will cost a fortune to recover–not to mention there is no upside to business downtime. Accidents happen–there is no way to control every environmental agent that could cause damage in the server room (whether an air conditioner breaks, water leaks from the ceiling etc) so it would be smart to insure your server room equipment with Ravica’s environmental monitoring package.
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