Overview
IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Version 4.2 measures, monitors, and manages the power and thermal components built into IBM systems enabling a cross-platform management solution. Active Energy Manager extends the scope of energy management to include non-IBM systems and facility providers to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the datacenter. It is a unique energy management software tool that can provide a single view of the actual energy usage across the systems and facilities within the data center.
- Monitoring functions include power trending, thermal trending, IBM and non-IBM PDU support, support for facility providers, and energy and environment thresholds.
- Management functions include power capping and power savings modes.
Active Energy Manager is an IBM Systems Director plug-in available for Linux® on System z®, Linux on POWER®, Linux on System x®, AIX®, and Microsoft® Windows® operating systems.
Provides support for:
- IBM BladeCenter®, Power Systems, System x, and System z servers.
- IBM storage systems and non-IBM systems can be monitored through IBM or non-IBM (Raritan, Eaton, APC, Rittal and Avocent) Power Distribution Units (PDU).
- Collecting information from select facility providers including Liebert SiteScan from Emerson Network Power, APC’s InfraStruXture Central from Schneider Electric, and PowerXpert and Forseer from Eaton Corporation.
- Retrieving environmental information via sensors from SynapSense, iButtonLink LLC, Sensatronics, and Arch Rock.
- Power monitoring of SmartWorks SmartWatt meters and SmartWorks SmartSense TH sensors.
The main new features of Active Energy Manager 4.2 include:
- Energy management of updated firmware levels for POWER6™ servers and POWER technology-based server support to aid in power on and off.
- Enhanced facility provider support with APC, Eaton, and Emerson Network Power, enabling energy monitoring of equipment supporting IBM systems.
- Support for users to manually create relationships from systems to cooling and power units in data centers. Power and cooling topologies can now be viewed.
- Enhanced PDU support that enables users to disable and enable outlets on a PDU to help an administrator better control what can be plugged into racks.
- Ability to monitor energy and environment data from PDUs and sensors available from APC, Arch Rock, Avocent, and Rittal.
Active Energy Manager also provides a source of energy management data that can be exploited by Tivoli enterprise solutions such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Active Energy Manager is a key component of IBM's energy-efficient technologies and services and is required for a dynamic infrastructure strategy.
What we offer
Active Energy Manager monitors and manages power consumption and environment data (temperature, humidity, etc) to allow better utilization of available energy resources and facilities equipment. The application software enables you to trend actual power consumption and corresponding environment data on systems running applications in your data center
IBM's energy management provides an integrated approach across the entire energy spectrum with products that align with your needs.
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager:
- Increases visibility through additional support of sensors and meters into what systems are supported by what power equipment and flexibility in pre-empting problems
- Communicates with facility management applications that control all power and cooling equipment in a data center, enabling IT administrators to better monitor power issues in real time
- Offers the data and real-time capabilities required to effectively control energy consumption, which helps to reduce costs, and increases reliability in a dynamic infrastructure
Benefits:
- Potential to reduce IT costs
- More efficient planning of new data center construction or modification
- Ability to retrieve environment and power data via wireless and TH sensors
- Support for monitoring temperature and humidity from one-wire sensors, power and thermal sensors
- Ability to collect alerts, events, and data from facility providers related to power and cooling equipment
- Monitor energy usage for non-IBM and legacy systems through IBM and Non-IBM PDU
- Lower power usage on select IBM systems
- Determine power usage for all components of a rack
- Accurate power input sizing based on physical systems
- Justification of incremental hardware purchases based on available input power capacity
- Better utilization of existing resources
- Ability to set thresholds so that alerts can be surfaced when user-specified power or environment values are reached. Automated actions could take place based on those alerts
- Ability to set a power cap for a group of systems
- Plan for the future by viewing trends of power and environment data over time
Product Download
IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager 4.2 Availability
IBM formally announced IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager on October 20, 2009 and it will be made Generally Available via download or with new server orders in the fourth quarter of 2009. Services from IBM will be available to help with the analysis and deployment of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager 4.2 and can assist existing IBM Director Active Energy Manager clients migrate to the new release.
Requirements:
Active Energy Manager 4.2 requires IBM Systems Director 6.1.2. If the product is installed on an older version of IBM Systems Director, you will be prompted to perform an upgrade before accessing full functionality. Consult the Installation and User's Guide (PDF, 1.17MB) for full plug-in requirements.
Get a 60-day trial of Active Energy Manager
Take advantage of the 60 day trial opportunity to see for yourself how this solution will enable you to measure, monitor and manage 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. When the trial ends, for continued use of IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager beyond the 60-day trial, the offering must be purchased.
The following trial download link will be updated with Active Energy Manager 4.2 when it becomes available. Previous versions are available now at this link.
Purchase Active Energy Manager
Contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL.
