Data center computer room monitoring system

The data center computer room monitoring system can also be called “self-monitoring system”, which is mainly for centralized monitoring and management of all equipment and environment in the equipment room. The monitoring objects constitute the various subsystems of the equipment room: power system, environmental system, fire protection system, The security system, network system, etc., collect various data parameters of the data center computer room through the monitoring system to determine whether an abnormality occurs, so that the operation and maintenance personnel can make positive and accurate judgments. Therefore, the monitoring system is especially important for the data center computer room.

The monitoring system of the data center computer room is actually composed of many aspects, rather than simple video monitoring. When there are some hidden dangers in the data center computer room, the monitoring system can detect the danger in time to eliminate the danger in the cradle. In theory, anywhere in the data center room, any operating system has a problem, and whether the monitoring system can be fully covered will determine the stability of the data center computer room to a certain extent.

Any data center computer room has a monitoring system. The only difference is the degree of perfection of the monitoring system. Before a data center computer room is officially put into operation, it needs a monitoring system for the operation of the data center computer room. There are three important monitoring systems in the central computer room and some little-known functions in the monitoring system in the high-quality data center computer room.

"Device Monitoring System" in the data center computer room

There are thousands of devices in the data center computer room. It is necessary to monitor the operation of these devices, such as the CPU memory parameters of the server, the port traffic of the network device, the monitoring at the service level, etc. The monitoring at the device level is even more It is complicated and needs to be clear about various operating parameters of the equipment. Therefore, the monitoring system of the general equipment is managed by the monitoring software provided by the equipment manufacturer or the standard third-party software.

(1) Through these monitoring software, various parameters of the equipment operation are monitored in 7*24 hours, and an alarm is issued once an abnormality is found.

(2) There are many ways to send alarms. You can print them to the log host. You can send them to the mobile phone of the operation and maintenance personnel via SMS, or you can try to repair them by software system.

(3) Whether the software being monitored is perfect will determine whether the alarm can be given when the fault occurs. Therefore, the monitoring of the equipment is often in the process of continuous improvement. Many monitoring parameters are the experience and even the lessons of history. Only through continuous improvement and optimization can the risks occur be discovered in time. Of course, it is very difficult to predict and discover all the faults in advance.

(4) Sometimes the failure may be without any symptoms, especially hardware failures, which will suddenly appear, and often the monitoring system cannot detect the hardware level and component failure.

"Video Surveillance System" in the data center computer room

Like other business buildings, video surveillance systems are also required in data center rooms. The video surveillance mainly monitors the personnel entering and leaving the data center computer room. The camera is deployed at the entrance and exit of the data center computer room. The internal computer room of the data center computer room and the important computer room entrance must be deployed.

In some very important business rooms, cameras are sometimes deployed to prevent malicious operations or misuse by some people. When these abnormalities are discovered, they are stopped in time to prevent the data center from affecting the business. Many equipment and instruments in the data center computer room are very expensive, because the damage caused by human factors is very common, and it is to prevent some theft. For example, the optical module in the data center computer room, an optical module, especially the 40G/100G optical module, one has to be thousands of dollars, and it is easy to take out a few, and the transfer can be profitable.

With the video surveillance system, these behaviors can be avoided to the utmost extent, or they can be analyzed and tracked through these surveillance videos after they appear. These video recordings are important evidence, so the video surveillance system is indispensable in the data center computer room. In part, some data center computer rooms, in addition to video surveillance, also need to enter and register personnel in the data center computer room to manage the external personnel and avoid putting some malicious elements.

"Smog temperature and humidity monitoring system" in data center computer room

The data center computer room is equally afraid of fire, and once a fire breaks out, it is a devastating blow to the data center computer room. There have been some painful lessons in the past, so for the arson, the data center room can not be careless. Unlike other buildings, the data center room has too many electronic devices inside. It is not suitable for sprinkler systems. It can only be fired with dry powder or inert gas.

When the smoke concentration in the equipment room exceeds the threshold set by the alarm, the monitoring system is triggered to extinguish the fire in time. In addition to the smoke, the temperature and humidity in the equipment room are also important deployments that need to be monitored. The inside of the data center room should be kept at a constant temperature and humidity, but in fact there will be a partial temperature dead angle inside the data center room. In the long run, the service life of the electronic equipment will be greatly reduced. By deploying temperature and humidity sensors in multiple areas in the data center room. By establishing a monitoring network for temperature and humidity, it is possible to detect over-temperature and over-humidity in a local area in a timely manner. In some places where air pollution is more serious, equipment for monitoring air cleanliness can also be deployed, and equipment in the data center room is seriously polluted. In the environment, it is easy to cause static electricity, capacitor breakdown devices and other faults. Why do we require the data center equipment room to periodically remove dust? This is the reason, the dust itself contains a lot of pollutants.

The data center computer room is developing at a high speed, and various new technologies are emerging one after another. It also makes the operation of the data center computer room more complicated. This brings great challenges to the monitoring system. How to detect the running risk through the monitoring system in time is the monitoring system. An eternal topic of concern.

Although there are various monitoring systems in the data center room, it can be determined that the monitoring system cannot find all the faults in advance, especially the equipment-level faults, but the perfect monitoring system can indeed avoid many faults. Even if the monitoring system does not give an alarm when a fault occurs, in the after-the-fact fault analysis, various technical parameters and records of the monitoring system are still important data for analysis. It is possible to find faults through these monitoring records. the reason. The function of the monitoring system is to convert historical experience and lessons into some data parameters, and then collect various data information in the data center computer room for comparison. If an abnormality is found, an alarm is given in time. The richer the data, the more powerful the monitoring system will be.

Do not think that a data center computer room is not deployed with a monitoring system, you can rest easy, any system has loopholes, not to mention the monitoring system, so the data center computer room operation and maintenance personnel must also in the daily work, more inspection, more analysis, timely If hidden dangers are found, if the monitoring system fails to find out, then find a way to add the judgment of these hidden dangers to the monitoring system, so that the monitoring system is more and more perfect, and the same mistakes must not be allowed, and the crime is repeated twice.