Whether you’re just starting out in data center management or looking for an upgrade, it can be difficult to know which DCIM software is right for you.
There are some key factors to consider when buying a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) solution. Your choice should be based on the size of your business, your team’s technical expertise, how you’re using your data center, and your required features.
The best DCIM solutions offer integrations for other tools used by the company. The solution should be able to scale up or down based on your business needs. Remember that a good DCIM system will give you a complete view of your data center’s infrastructure and will enable you to improve business continuity, efficiency, and cost savings.
First, you need to find out what types of monitoring you need, key functions you require, ability to transform into additional features as your organization’s needs should grow with time, ease of use, and other factors that suit your business’ unique requirements.
Usually, IT infrastructure services cover administration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization of corporate IT infrastructures. So, first of all, you should conduct an efficiency assessment and decide on what pool of services you really need.
When the infrastructure of a data center grows too large for manual management, an automated system like DCIM is required to ensure that all aspects of the environment are properly monitored and managed. The choice of which DCIM software to purchase can be overwhelming with so many options available.
5 Tips on How to Choose the Best DCIM Solution for Your Needs:
1. Define What Kind of Monitoring You Want: Physical or Logical?
Monitoring in a data center involves having information about the physical and logical components of your environment. Physical monitoring includes details on all hardware (e.g., servers, racks) and associated properties, for example, firmware version. Logical components include items like networks and network devices such as routers and switches.
2. How Many Sites Do You Want to Monitor?
Most data centers operate out of multiple locations which will require more than one software solution if using a single vendor for management. It is generally recommended that each site be managed by its own console but multi-site management does not need to be an entirely separate system as some DCIM solutions offer a master/slave configuration where an individual can connect several different locations into one master console so they can monitor all sites from one interface.
Build, Deploy & manage your IT assets with eMagic a complete datacenter management tool.Inventory ManagementAuto discovery in eMagic enables faster deployment of devices in eMagic system.
Once auto discovery is done all the devices in given network are deployed in eMagic on a single click.The inventory management enables users to manage IT assets like server, its detailed parts as RAM, CPU, HDD, Cards, Power Supply and so on.Device Auto discovery options provide following information about device in networkChassis – Manufacturer, Serial No.Processor – Manufacturer, Current Speed ,Core, Type ,Series ,CacheRam – Size, Type, Speed, Serial No.HDD – Type, CapacityEthernet , IPCredentials, Deployment Type.It provides capability of auditing & understanding exact scenario of entire network in given frame of time.Management of assets in entire network become easy & a few click process.MonitoringeMagic provides detailed SNMP monitoring as well as socket monitoring.
In SNMP monitoring all SNMP supported monitoring functions like RAM, CPU, Disk, Network, and load are monitored.Socket monitoring enables users to monitor the services like Web, email, FTP, SQL or any other custom service.Performance monitoring – Bandwidth, CPU, Memory, Power, Uptime.Uptime Report – Current and HistoricalCustomized alert system, Alert console.Service monitoring – HTTP, FTP, SMTP, POP3 and all ports.Syslog monitoring – Monitoring any type of logs, custom files.Read More>>
Many companies around the world try to do as many things as they possibly can to make their systems safe.
However, experienced hackers can manage to find their way into almost any network.The text above is a summary, you can read the full article here
