Overview
IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager Version 4.1 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 non-IBM servers and facility providers to enable a more complete view of energy consumption within the datacenter.
Active Energy Manager is an IBM Systems Director extension that supports the following endpoints: IBM BladeCenter®, Power Systems, System x, and System z servers. IBM storage systems and non-IBM platforms can be monitored through IBM or non-IBM (Raritan and Eaton) Power Distribution Units (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, AIX, Linux on System x, Linux on Power 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.
- Monitoring functions include power trending, thermal trending, IBM and non-IBM PDU support, support for facility providers, energy thresholding and altitude input
- 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. It is a key component of IBM's Cool Blue portfolio within Project Big Green.
What we offer
This solution helps customers monitor and manage 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 Systems
- Lower power usage on select IBM servers
- Plan for the future by viewing trends of power and thermal 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
- Monitor energy usage for non-IBM and legacy systems through IBM and Non-IBM PDU's
Better understand energy usage across your data center.
- Identify energy usage
- Measure cooling costs accurately
- Monitor IT costs across components
- Manage by department and/or user
Get a 60-day trial of Active Energy Manager V4.1
Take the opportunity to see for yourself for 60 days how this solution will enable you to identify, monitor, measure, and manage energy consumption across your organization, right down to the system, chassis, or rack level. Once the trial ends, you can continue to use the monitoring functions — such as power trending, thermal trending, IBM and non-IBM PDU support, support for facility providers, energy thresholding and altitude input — at no charge. For continued use of the management functions beyond the 60-day trial, the offering must be purchased.
