What is a Server Room Monitoring System?

Server room monitoring systems continuously collect data from sensors monitoring specific aspects within a server room or data centre environment and generate automatic alerts via email, SMS, phone call, SNMP and means to a predefined list of contacts, when the measured data goes outside of preset thresholds or there is a change of state. Sensor can be physical sensors to monitor environmental factors such as temperature, humidity, water leakage, smoke, motion and access control or virtual sensors, used to bring in data from third-party devices including UPS systems, energy meters, intelligent PDUs, LV switchgear and cooling systems. The system consists of an environmental base unit, sensors, detectors and converters and a software package used to display data on dashboards, setup and configure base units, alerts and notification rules.