Sinetica Intelligent Power Strips

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Alongside the delivery of reliable power to the network environment, local power monitoring protection and / or management is a key concern to the Data Centre Manager. There is a real need to monitor power utilisation, prevent unauthorised use of power outlets, reboot locked-up equipment, prevent current in-rush and overloaded feeds.

Intelligent power strips provide a modular and flexible solution to manage power needs remotely to mission-critical equipment, thus saving on-site visits.

Sinetica addresses these concerns with a range of intelligent power strips that, coupled with Sinetica's Power-Hawk products, or Hawk-i, can provide remote power control and remote power monitoring over IP, providing benefits of:

• SNMP management (gets /sets/ traps)
• Inbuilt web server
• Telnet Communications

Additionally, the power strips have terminal emulation, which is accessible via a KVM switch.

Uses of the intelligent power strip solutions include:

• Power Balancing - IT infrastructure managers can ensure that the individual phases available within the data centre are correctly balanced.  This helps prevent infrastructure failure and makes more efficient use of power delivery components such as UPS, generator, harmonic filters etc.  This also enables the infrastructure to be matched to actual enterprise needs.
• Power Availability Check - Power is provided to the load point using normal power delivery equipment.  This usually has a finite limit before a circuit breaker cuts in to prevent overloading and dropping the load (maybe your application servers!).  This can be avoided by monitoring power closely.
• Billing Stream - Monitoring KWhr enables certain organisations to bill their customers (Web, hotels, hosting companies etc) for consumed power thereby adding to their income revenues.
• Remote Reboot and Power Control - Locked up and unresponsive equipment can be rebooted remotely, saving on site visits.   In addition, the power strips can be used for sequenced start up of devices to prevent in-rush curren.