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Overview

IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager Version 3.1.1 measures, monitors, and manages the energy components built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager extends the scope of energy management to include facility providers to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the datacenter.

Active Energy Manager is an IBM Director extension that supports the following endpoints: IBM BladeCenter®, POWER, System x, and System z servers. IBM storage systems and non-IBM platforms can be monitored through PDU+ support. In addition, Active Energy Manager can collect information from select facility providers including Liebert SiteScan from Emerson Network Power and SynapSense (the preceding linked content resides outside of ibm.com).

The Active Energy Manager server can run on the following platforms: Windows on System x, Linux on System x, Linux on System p, and Linux on System z. Active Energy Manager uses agent-less technology and therefore no agents are required on the endpoints.

Monitoring and management functions apply to all IBM systems that are enabled for IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager V3.1.1.

Monitoring functions include power trending, thermal trending, PDU+ support and support for facility providers.
Management functions include power capping and power savings mode.

Active Energy Manager also provides a source of energy management data that can be exploited by Tivoli enterprise solutions such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager. It is a key component of within Project Big Green.

How Active Energy Manager works and the benefits

This solution helps customers monitor energy consumption to allow better utilization of available energy resources. The application software enables customers to trend actual energy consumption and corresponding thermal loading of IBM Systems running in their environment with their applications. This helps customers:

Allocate less power and cooling infrastructure to IBM servers
Lower power usage on select IBM servers
Plan for the future by viewing trends of power usage over time
Determine power usage for all components of a rack
Retrieve temperature and power information via wireless sensors
Collect alerts and events from facility providers related to power and cooling equipment

Better understand energy usage across your data center.