Power IQ® Energy Management Software provides vendor agnostic centralized monitoring, agentless graceful OS shutdown, outlet control, powerful thermal and energy analytics of your active power, costs, line capacities, carbon footprint and rack temperature. Trending reports and cumulative totals can be displayed at the Data Center, floor, room, rack, customer and IT device level. You can generate customer energy billback cost reports in local currency with one click.
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
With Power IQ, you can:
- Monitor outlet, rack and Data Center power draw
- Meter current, voltage, temperature and humidity levels
- Power on/off/cycle outlets remotely
Together, they help IT and facilities managers improve Data Center availability, enhance capacity planning and improve energy efficiency.
Power IQ manages any number of Raritan's Dominion® PX and third-party rack PDUs. The system is open data base compliant (ODBC) and can be integrated with your current data warehouse and enterprise reporting system. Its data collection and reporting capabilities, used in combination with rack PDUs, help IT and facilities managers:
- Make informed capacity planning decisions, by allowing you to accurately monitor and measure key power data
- Efficiently utilize energy, using valuable information that can help you identify and gain efficiencies
- Ensure security with LDAP/AD integration, trusted host definitions and 256-bit AES encryption
- Simplify centralized management with bulk configuration settings and easy firmware management
- Enable multivendor power data aggregation through user configurable collection intervals, current, voltage, power factor and active and apparent power aggregation data and SNMP plug-in architecture
- Create standard trending and status reports, to help you easily see usage trends
To find the model that best fits your needs, see the table below.
Number of devices* Power IQ can manage and monitor | ||
| Harware Appliance | Virtual Appliance | |
10 | N/A | |
20 | ||
50 | ||
100 | ||
200 | ||
300 | ||
400 | ||
500 | ||
1000 | ||
1500 | ||
2000 | ||
2500 | ||
3000 | ||
4000 | ||
5000 | ||
* Devices equal a monitored IP address. For example, a single Dominion PX equals one device or a single APC PDU equals one device. Because environmental probes do not need IP addresses, they would not be considered devices.
Power IQ helps you become more effective in power capacity management and efficient in energy consumption by providing:
- Agentless graceful shutdown of Windows®, Linux® and Unix® device groups
- Psychrometric chart to calculate possible energy savings from simply increasing temperature
- Energy cost bill-back reports to drive behavior
- Decommission flags to forecast energy savings when eliminating servers
- Baseline consumption and changes of various energy saving initiatives
- Capture peak loads under compute stress to identify excess power capacity in the rack
Security is ensured with standards-based authentication, Web session timeout and IP-based access control.
Simplifies PX configuration and firmware management
The system is open database compliant (ODBC) and includes a web service API for easy intergration with your enterprise management sysems and scripts.
FEATURES & BENEFITS
Features | Benefits |
Reports | |
Cooling Chart | Energy Efficiency – Understand if you are compliant with manufacturer and industry-accepted recommendations, and project how much energy you can save by increasing room ambient temperature. |
Trend Analysis Charts | Reduce Downtime – Establish baselines and track long-term trends for energy consumption, power load, line current, temperature and humidity. Avoid project delays and downtime due to lack of power supply or circuit overloads. |
Carbon Footprint Charts | Peace of Mind – Certify usage change from one period to another to support carbon credit claims. |
Energy Billback Charts | Energy Efficiency – Drive energy conservation behavior by billing back energy consumption to users. |
PDU Health Chart | Reduce Downtime – Easily spot power health incidents before they become serious problems. |
Vendor Agnostic Power Control | |
Agentless Graceful Operating System Shutdown and Outlet Control | Reduces energy costs under normal operations and extends battery life during power failure. |
Remote Power On/Off of Outlets, IT Devices, Device Groups and Racks | Operational efficiency. |
Vendor Agnostic Data Aggregation and Grouping | |
Group Data Via IT Device, Customer/Department, Rack, Row, Zone and Building | Turns a large amount of detailed data into useful information to enhance capacity planning and energy efficiency initiatives. |
Collect Power Data: Outlet Current and Active Power; Line Current Draw and Available Current; Unit Active Power and Apparent Power | Use one system for information aggregation. |
Collect Environmental Data from Temperature and Humidity Probes | Find hot spots in your Data Center. |
User Configurable Polling | The data polling can be configured from 15 seconds to 24 hours. |
User Configurable Data Retention | System administrator can control data retention period. |
Open Data Model and Web Service API | |
Open Database Connectivity | Provides you with the flexibility to use your own reporting system, such as Crystal reports or SQL, to store and analyze data. This can save training time and lets you create the exact custom reports you require. |
Web Service API | Easily integrate to your systems and tools. Build your own customer applications for power control. |
Import and Export Data Via CSV File | Leverage data and information between systems and organizations. |
Centralized Rack PDU Management | |
Centralized Management | Consolidates names, polling status, locations, models and firmware for all your rack PDUs onto one screen and saves valuable management time. |
Monitoring for Alerts and Threshold Violations | Increase uptime by becoming aware of incidents before they become problems. |
PDU System and Outlet Naming | Common tool to set names in bulk or one at a time to save time. Also allows you to save outlet names in an Excel® file for future reference and updates. |
Bulk PX System Configuration | Saves time and improves accuracy for configuring common parameters for thousands of PX devices. |
PX Firmware Management | Power IQ reduces the time it takes to administer PX firmware updates because it helps track and distribute those updates. |
Security | |
LDAP/AD Integration | Easily centralizes corporate authentication policies. |
Trusted Host Definition | Our 100% Web-enabled system provides administrators with the option to restrict access to named hosts if such a level of security is desired. |
AES Encryption up to 256 Bits | Protects your data with the industry’s most secure encryption standard. |
Versatility | |
VMware® Virtual Appliance | Runs on your VMware ESX or free VMware ESXi to save time, space and energy. |
Optional Appliance for Non-VMware Enterprises | Easy-to install enterprise server with dual mirrored hard drives, redundant power and redundant fans. |
FAQ
Question | Answer |
What is Power IQ? | Power IQ Energy Management Software provides vendor agnostic centralized monitoring, graceful OS shutdown, outlet control, as well as powerful thermal and energy analytics of your active power, costs, line capacities, carbon footprint and rack temperature. Trending reports and cumulative totals can be displayed at the Data Center, floor, room, rack, customer and IT device level. You can generate customer energy billback cost reports in local currency with one click. Through one Web browser, the scalable Power IQ manages APC®, Avocent®, Baytech®, Cyber Switching®, Geist, HP, Knurr®, Liebert, MRV, Raritan, Rittal®, Server Technology and UNITE™ rack PDUs, UPSs and more. Our system is open database compliant and provides a Web Service API for integration with enterprise systems and tools. It simplifies PX™ configuration and firmware management, plus security is ensured with standards-based authentication, Web session timeout and IPbased access control. |
What platforms will Power IQ run on? | Power IQ will run on any VMware® platform or on an appliance Raritan provides. |
What is a VMware virtual appliance? | Virtual appliances are pre-built, pre-configured, ready-to-run applications packaged with an operating system inside a virtual machine. Virtual appliances are designed to eliminate the installation, configuration and maintenance costs associated with running complex stacks of software. Customers can easily install and deploy these pre-integrated solution stacks. |
How do I deploy Power IQ? | Raritan provides a DVD that sets up a turnkey system, including application software, database, operating system and Web server. The system is ready to run on any VMware platform, including the free VMware ESXi™ for organizations that don’t already have VMware. |
How frequently does Power IQ collect data? | Data collection is user configurable from once every 15 seconds to once every hour. |
What is the Raritan appliance? | You have the option to deploy Power IQ as a VMware virtual appliance or to use Raritan’s physical appliance. The Raritan appliance is a 2U, rack-mountable server with Intel® Xeon® Quad Core CPU, 4GB RAM, redundant fans and dual power supply. |
Are failed login attempts recorded? | Yes, Power IQ provides a syslog message to notify you if there was a failed login attempt. |
Does Power IQsupport secure LDAP? | Yes, LDAP over a secure port is supported. |
Does Power IQ support LDAP “lock-out” settings? | Power IQ respects the “lock-out” settings of an LDAP server. If a user attempts multiple invalid logins, and the LDAP server set the account to be blocked, it no longer allows access. |
Do session timeouts work in an LDAP setting? | Session timeouts are applicable to both LDAP users and the local administrator account. |
What is the Power IQ upgrade path? | Each Power IQ model contains the same software. You can purchase the license capacity that meets your needs today and then update the license capacity as you grow. A device license capacity upgrade does not require a hardware change. We offer 10-, 20-, 50- and 100-device license upgrade packages. |
Does Power IQ software offer support and updates? | One year of software tech support and updates are included in your initial purchase. Software upgrades do not impact configuration or history data. You have the option to renew this on an annual basis for approximately 18% of the original license. |
