Marketing description

InfraStruXure Central provides an efficient way for organizations to monitor their company-wide multi-vendor physical infrastructure, power, cooling, security, and environment. Real-time monitoring, user-defined reports and graphs, and instant fault notification and escalation enable quick assessment and resolution of critical infrastructure events that can adversely affect IT system availability. This centralized repository of critical information can be accessed by multiple users from anywhere on the network, creating a consolidated view of the physical infrastructure. This open and flexible architecture expands with changing business needs through additional device licenses, add-on surveillance, capacity management and change management modules, and through integration with enterprise and building management systems.

Key selling points

• Centralized management
• Fault notification
• Unified console
• NMS integration
• Auto-discovery
• Mass configuration
• Custom mapping
• Private networking
• Advanced device grouping
• Integrated data storage
• Localized user interface
• Extendable architecture
• Web services API
• Surveillance add-on application
• Add-on modbus TCP output module
• Customizable user access

Product features

• Centralized management
  Simplify management of the physical infrastructure using a centralized repository accessible from anywhere on the network through a powerful and easy-to-use console application.
• Fault notification
  Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.
• Unified console
  Customizable Windows and Linux client application enables instant access to InfraStruXure Central application from anywhere on the network.
• NMS integration
  Integrate SNMP traps into an enterprise management system, allowing users to view alerts generated by devices managed by InfraStruXure Central.
• Auto-discovery
  Reduces the time needed to install and deploy physical infrastructure devices by automatically detecting manageable devices on your network.
• Mass configuration
  Provides a comprehensive mass configuration capability, allowing users to create, save, and push configurations or specific device settings to similar APC devices with a network management card.
• Custom mapping
  Custom backgrounds, unique user-assignable icons, and drag-and-drop device placement make it easy to identify problem devices at a glance, minimizing downtime, errors, and cost.
• Private networking
  Reduce IP addresses needed on the public network to manage devices, by placing them on an isolated secure network.
• Advanced device grouping
  Define user access and viewing capabilities to individual groups. Control access to devices by administrator-defined user accounts. Additional user access can be managed by using the built-in LDAP and active directory support.
• Integrated data storage
  InfraStruXure Central ships with internal storage for data and video collection. Additional storage can easily be made available using the built-in network attached storage server support for long-term storage and archiving.
• Localized user interface
  It provides localized alerts, alert descriptions and recommended actions for APC devices in 10 local languages.
• Extendable architecture
  Available node and application license keys extend the capabilities of the platform allowing it to grow to meet changing business needs.
• Web services API
  Provides the ability to integrate InfraStruXure Central data and events into existing IT applications and tools capable of making web services calls.
• Surveillance add-on application
  Enhance visibility of your critical assets with physical threat management to monitor and record all activity in secured areas. A centralized repository allows the user to review, search and tag surveillance events for future needs.
• Add-on modbus TCP output module
  Integrates data and select events from devices managed by InfraStruXure Central into an existing building management systems through Ethernet transmission.
• Customizable user access
  Define user access and viewing capabilities to individual groups. Control access to devices by administrator-defined user accounts. Additional user access can be managed by using the built-in LDAP and active directory support.