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What is a DCIM software?

DCIM or datacenter infrastructure monitoring software enables IT admins and technicians to review the status and performance of the core components of a datacenter. Generally, DCIM software are used to manage IT systems like servers, network, and storage, as well as datacenter support systems like power delivery units, battery backups, and cooling systems.

Datacenter monitoring with OpManager: A quick walk-through

Server Network Storage Power IoT Maps Disaster recovery

Improve server infrastructure visibility and incident response

Server availability monitoring: OpManager ensures high availability by continuously monitoring critical server devices, alerting you to downtime, and escalating notifications for swift response.
Server performance monitoring: Eliminate bottlenecks for servers, VMs, and HCI systems by tracking key performance indicators such as CPU, memory, disk utilization, temperature, and hardware with multi-level alarms and detailed reports.
Process & service monitoring: Maintain continuous operation by monitoring processes and Windows services, gaining insights into resource usage, and remotely managing critical services.

Server performance monitoring with OpManager

Network and interface monitoring with OpManager

Gain more control over the network with end-to-end monitoring

Network uptime monitoring: OpManager ensures continuous network availability by monitoring devices, links, interfaces, VPN tunnels, BGP, VLANs, IP SLA, and protocols like BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP.
Network performance monitoring: Optimize network quality by monitoring key metrics like packet loss, response time, and jitter, with multi-level alarms for quick fault identification in Layer 2 networks and paths.
Interface monitoring: Eliminate bandwidth constraints by tracking interface uptime and utilization, visualizing traffic flow with dedicated performance graphs.

Optimize storage performance with extensive monitoring and capacity planning

Storage disk monitoring: Gain comprehensive visibility into your storage disks and RAID arrays, including individual disks, LUNs, and overall capacity, while monitoring hardware health to prevent failures.
Storage tape monitoring: Track the health, performance, and capacity of your tape libraries and drives, with access to essential details like vendor, model, and firmware version.
Storage network monitoring: Effectively manage your Storage Area Networks (SANs) by overseeing fabric switch health and performance, discovering switch ports, and analyzing traffic levels.

Improve datacenter resilience with power and hardware monitoring

PDU monitoring: Track energy consumption and power supply quality in your datacenter by monitoring status, voltage, and current, with alarms for anomalies to prevent unexpected failures.
UPS monitoring: Ensure business continuity by overseeing your power backup system's health and performance, monitoring UPS devices and batteries for degradation to prevent data loss during outages.
Hardware health monitoring: Keep critical servers, networks, storage, and datacenter chassis systems running optimally by tracking processor performance, cooling fans, PDUs, and batteries.

Monitor sensors and IoT systems to maintain optimal conditions

Cooling system monitoring: Track the temperature of your datacenter components, with alarms for high temperatures and color-coded graphs for visualizing cooling system performance.
IoT monitoring: Monitor IoT components to ensure your datacenter's climate, including temperature, humidity, and airflow, adheres to ASHRAE standards.
Sensor monitoring: Monitor the uptime of sensors used to track the temperature, battery health, battery capacity, and more.

Datacenter visualization with floor views

Enhance datacenter management with visualization and mapping

Datacenter floor views: Represent your physical datacenter sites by incorporating designed rack views into a floor plan, allowing you to track servers by grid numbers and rack positions for streamlined maintenance and troubleshooting.
Server rack views: Visualize your datacenter by adding servers to a graphical rack representation, customizing server images, and monitoring their status directly from the view.
Organization maps: Get an end-to-end mapping of your datacenter infrastructure, across the network, server, and application layers.

Enforce disaster recovery and business continuity plans across datacenters

High availability monitoring: OpManager has a high availability monitoring mode where you can add multiple server instances in an active-active or active-passive configuration. This helps OpManager identify failover servers and monitor them accordingly. In addition, you can also set up a high-availability backup for OpManager's monitoring server, ensuring that you have uninterrupted monitoring for your datacenters.
Load balancer monitoring: Monitor your datacenter's load balancers by observing their performance and traffic distribution, allowing you to track health and manage traffic redirection for continuous and effective business operations.

Failover and high availability monitoring

Managing datacenter resources with OpManager

Capacity planning reports

Capacity planning

Manage datacenter compute and storage capacity with in-depth capacity planning reports that highlight under-utilized and over-utilized devices.
Alleviate performance inefficiencies, prioritize resource allocation based on criticality, and detect resource-greedy systems.

Resource forecasting

Resource forecasts

OpManager's AI/ML engine analyzes the current utilization levels of the CPU, memory, and storage systems and predicts the number of days left till 80%, 90%, and 100% capacity.
Set up alarms to warn you when system resources are predicted to be exhausted in a certain number of days

Identify resource sprawl

Sprawl identification

Leverage specialized virtualization reports to detect over-utilized and under-utilized virtual machines and potential virtual sprawl scenarios.
Track logical connections between hosts, VMs, and datastores to track the VMs consuming your system resources.

Popular vendors supported by OpManager

Server vendors

Dell Technologies
HPE
Huawei
IBM
Lenovo
Microsoft
NEC
Oracle
Supermicro

Storage vendors

Acronis
Hitachi
NetApp
Pure Storage
Seagate
Veritas

Check out more supported vendors and device types!

Enabling rapid incident detection and response in your datacenters with OpManager

AI-driven monitoring

OpManager leverages its in-built AI/ML engine to automatically calculate and adjust performance monitoring alerts. It does this hourly, by analyzing historical data and typical usage patterns of each device. This eliminates the need for manual alarm configuration, allowing OpManager to adapt to changing system behaviours and significantly reduce alert noise from expected fluctuations.

Automated workflows

Using OpManager's drag-and-drop workflow feature, IT teams can build and execute code-free workflows. These workflows consist of sequential, outcome-based actions chosen from over 70 unique options. They offer flexibility, able to be triggered by alarms or set on a time-based schedule. This capability allows for the easy automation of basic troubleshooting, diagnostics, and incident response.

Root cause analysis

In datacenters, identifying the root cause of a performance issue can be challenging due to the large number of devices and metrics involved. Root cause analysis profiles simplify this process by allowing you to view relevant performance graphs stacked on top of each other and side by side. This arrangement helps in correlating data to pinpoint the source of a problem efficiently.

ITSM integrations

OpManager's integration with ITSM tools like ServiceDesk Plus, ServiceNow, Freshservice, and Jira helps streamline your incident response. It can convert alarms into tickets, automating assignment, prioritization, and categorization. Additionally, you can sync your monitoring console with helpdesk tools to ensure your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) stays automatically updated.

Key DCIM metrics supported in OpManager

CPU utilization
Memory utilization
Bandwidth usage
Partition details
Temperature
Power supply & voltage

Battery status
Disk IOPs
Storage capacity
LUN statistics
SAN & port status
Volume statistics

Errors
Response time
Packet loss
Interface statistics
Switch stack details
BGP Peer status

Benefits of using a DCIM software

Scalability

Scalability and flexibility

OpManager is suited for all network sizes and types: whether your requirements are localized or distributed, for small or large networks, across public, private, or hybrid datacenters: OpManager's editions, add-ons, and plugins help you scale your monitoring along with your requirements.

Security

Improved security practices

Real-time monitoring helps you detect abnormal events that might signify potential breach events for security lapses (Like DDOS attacks). OpManager can also help you monitor compliance violations, firmware vulnerabilities, firewall logs, change detection, and other security statistics.

Visibility

Unified infrastructure visibility

OpManager's NOC (network operations center) dashboards and alarms help you keep constant surveillance over the entire datacenter infrastructure. No matter the nature of the issue: network, hardware, software, or resource-based, you'll get notified from a single console with the nature of the issue and the insights to fix it.

Performance

Optimized datacenter performance

OpManager supports monitoring for over 3000 key performance indicators by default. This, combined with intuitive reports, colour-coded graphs, and root-cause analysis tabs, help you narrow down performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies that maybe affecting datacenter performance.

Productivity

Better productivity for IT teams

Automate discovery, classification, alarm setting (AI-driven), escalation, and remediation processes. This cuts down repetitive and manual work and helps your team focus on strategic tasks. OpManager also supports multi-channel notifications, including SMS, push notifications, ITSM, and chat-tool integrations, enabling your IT teams to stay aware of the datacenter components anytime, anywhere.

Cost-effective

Cost-effective pricing plans

OpManager's device-based licensing offers more features and functionalities at a lower price when compared to other monitoring vendors in the market. Prices are transparent and consistent and are optimized to offer the best ROI for the customers. You can check out the pricing in our online store, or get a quote for your unique requirements.

Datacenter monitoring with OpManager: FAQs

How does OpManager monitor datacenter components?

OpManager monitors the availability and performance of various datacenter systems through agent-less and agent-based monitoring.

Network protocols used by OpManager:
- SNMP (v1, v2, v3)
- ICMP
- TCP
- WMI
- CLI
- Nutanix Prism API, and so on

Agent-based monitoring is done with the aid of a monitoring agent that's installed in each datacenter system. The agent gathers relevant data from each systems and pushes it to OpManager.

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