APC by Schneider Electric has announced a tightly coupled software integration of APC InfraStruxure Central with HP Operations Manager, which allows IT managers to understand the impact of physical layer changes on IT systems and business applications.
 

IT managers can now detect and monitor real-time changes in power, cooling and environment through HP Operations Manager, thereby reducing risk, raising data centre system availability and increasing energy efficiency.

The Smart Plug-In (SPI) will integrate InfraStruxure Central’s device hierarchy, device status and monitored data into the HP Operations Manager environment. The integrated solution:

• Shares key data points of multi-vendor devices including alarm notifications and historical data on the targeted server deployment environment;
• Provides a comprehensive look at how the physical and IT environments operate independently and influence each other, providing critical operating information on power and cooling capacity;
• Brings visibility, control and automation needed for a more efficient enterprise to help maintain IT service levels.

“This integration allows customers to take advantage of the centralised view and reporting capabilities of APC’s InfraStruxure Central, in tandem with HP’s Operations Manager, to better monitor complete or comprehensive IT infrastructure,” says Jonathan Duncan, director for the Central and North East Africa region at APC by Schneider Electric. “APC and HP share the common goal of helping customers run more efficient data centres, by providing comprehensive management tools that deliver cost-effective solutions to improve business applications.”

Among issues most critical to data centre managers, multi-vendor infrastructure monitoring and the ability to access real-time data are of utmost importance. APC’s InfraStruxure Central software meets these needs with end-to-end monitoring and control of power, cooling, security, and energy usage from the building through IT systems. In addition, features such as smart alerts, customisation capabilities, automatic device discovery, and mass configuration make InfraStruxure Central easy to implement in the data centre. For more information, visit http://www.apc.com/products/family/index.cfm?id=350.

HP Operations Manager is a suite of management products and solutions that help customers manage physical and virtual IT environments across data centres, client computers and devices. This software provides a single management console for virtual and cloud infrastructure, in addition to dependency views for transactions, applications, business services and infrastructure.