Icons representing connected hardware can be easily created and positioned to provide an ‘image’ of infrastructure layout that is representative of your actual data centre or server room environment enabling you to quickly locate problems.

For example, icons highlighted red may represent a non-responsive switch or a PDU where the load has exceeded a user-defined threshold. A host of analysis tools are available within PYXIS to enable users to track key trends and to help identify where improvements in operational efficiency can be achieved.

By using these tools you can…

• Calculate PUE figures
• Identify environmental trends
• Calculate network uptime
• Analyse response time to potential problems
• Appraise hardware reliability
• Analyse room and rack activity within monitored locations
• PYXIS Alerting

PYXIS contains a powerful alert-management interface that enables notification routing to be tailored to all types of organisational requirements.

PYXIS can alert users to problems via:

• Local on-screen alerts
• Email (including sending images captured by connected IP Cameras)
• Alarm Beacon
• Automatic SNMPset commands

SMS text messages & automated telephone voice calls (using optional modem)
The alerting matrix allows customised alerts to be sent to key personnel only when required.

For example, if a UPS problem is experienced outside of office hours an alert can be sent directly to on-call staff. Users can also define custom escalation procedures helping to ensure that any threats to network infrastructure are dealt with before any serious problems are caused.