NetBotz Management Platforms
InfraStruXure Central
InfraStruXure Central and NetBotz monitoring appliances combine to provide a comprehensive solution for IT environment and equipment. With InfraStruXure Central, you can instantly view environment readings and a camera image from any site on your network where a NetBotz monitoring appliance has been deployed. If environment readings for a site go outside of thresholds you have set, the icon label for that site turns red in the InfraStruXure Central Map view. A Table view presents users with a table that shows all current sensor data for NetBotz appliances in a selected group, allowing users to see at a glance where there is an alarm condition. Historical alarm data is quickly accessible by appliance and date.
 InfraStruXure Central works with logical, dynamically updated 'groups' of NetBotz appliances that you set up. Your IT group saves time by executing configuration and threshold operations against an entire group at once. You have powerful analytical capabilities at your disposal with the Graph and Report views, where you can generate graphs or reports to display sensor data for one or more appliances over a specified date/time range. Data can be exported for use in other applications. The administrator of InfraStruXure Central can choose precisely what capabilities to grant to each user and which groups or appliances they can access.
 InfraStruXure Central is available in two hardware configurations: InfraStruXure Central Standard is delivered pre-integrated on a rack-mountable 1U appliance with 250GB storage. InfraStruXure Central Enterprise is delivered pre-integrated on a rack-mountable 2U appliance with 1 Terabyte RAID 5 storage. The Enterprise version is suitable for customers with large numbers of appliances and for applications where NetBotz 500 Camera Pods are generating high volumes of high-resolution images at fast frame rates.
Another configuration option is to store InfraStruXure Central data on an external database. The InfraStruXure Central enables customers to utilize up to five Network Attached Storage (NAS) or SAN devices, seamlessly integrating with current back-up and restore policies.
InfraStruXure Central Features
- Powerful tool for centralized monitoring & management of multiple sites or cabinets
- Arrange remote monitoring appliances into device pools for mass configuration operations, graphing & reporting; Device pools can be hierarchically nested
- Easy-to-navigate, straightforward interface
- Map View gives high-level view, Table View presents sensor detail in compact format
- View pictures for one or multiple appliances; Zoom on detail
- Administrator controls which appliances each user can access and operations they are allowed to perform
- Surveillance Software (available as an add-on product) provides a visual record of who enters an IT facility and what they do while they're there. NetBotz Surveillance runs on the InfraStruXure Central server, and acts as a central repository for images and clips captured by the NetBotz monitoring appliances, providing users with options to quickly access "surveillance events" and play movie-like clips of the events.
- Access to past alerts - including pictures - by device pool/date/appliance
- LDAP authentication interface enables use of Microsoft Active Directory or Open LDAP Directory Server
InfraStruXure Central Benefits
- Provides advanced warning of equipment failure so you can act before systems go out
- Increased system availability; Reduced downtime costs
- Centralized tool improves monitoring efficiency, IT users more productive
- Graphing, reporting, exporting tools make it easy to analyze trends and assist in planning
- Promptly deal with unauthorized accesses to equipment
- Straightforward implementation and administration; Low overhead costs
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