Active Energy Manager

Overview

IBM® Systems Director Active Energy Manager™ Version 4.2 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, Eaton, APC, Rittal and Avocent) Power Distribution Units (PDU) support. Active Energy Manager can collect information from select facility providers including Liebert SiteScan from Emerson Network Power, Schneider Electric, Easton Corporation, and Emerson Network Power. In addition, Active Energy Manager has the ability to retrieve temperature and power information via wireless sensors from SynapSense. It supports power monitoring of SmartWorks SmartWatt meters and SmartWorks SmartSense TH sensors.

Active Energy 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. 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 energy consumption to allow better utilization of available energy resources. The application software enables you to trend actual energy consumption and corresponding thermal loading of IBM Systems running applications in your environment.

IBM's energy management provides an integrated approach across the entire energy spectrum with products that align with your needs. Active Energy Manager helps you better understand energy usage across your data center.

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 temperature and power information 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 servers
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 temperature values are reached. Automated actions could take place based on those alerts
Ability to set a power cap for a group of servers
Plan for the future by viewing trends of power and thermal usage 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 requires IBM Systems Director version 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.

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Purchase Active Energy Manager
Contact your IBM representative, an IBM Business Partner, or IBM Americas Call Centers at 800-IBM-CALL.