Power IQ

Power IQ® Energy Management Software enables you to be more energy efficient and fully utilize your existing data center power infrastructure. Powerful cooling charts, graceful OS shutdown and bill back reports provide you the tools to be more energy efficiency. Understand your real-time power load, rate of change and forecasted trends at all levels of your infrastructure to fully utilize your existing resources. The configurable dashboard provides a vendor agnostic centralized view of power and environmental health, energy capacity and consumption, weather services and maps. Our smart rack concept provides you one click access to rack power, cooling, airflow, events and much more.

Through one Web browser, the scalable Power IQ manages APC®, Avocent®, Baytech®, Cyber Switching®, Eaton, Geist, HP, Knurr®, Liebert®, MRV, Raritan®, Rittal®, Server Technology® , Tripp Lite and UNITE™ rack PDUs, UPSs and more.

Now you can add support for additional manufactures on your own with our new user configurable data collection module. Just enter the MIB OID for the data you want to collect.

OVERVIEW
BENEFITS
FAQ
SCREENSHOTS
ORDERING INFO

OVERVIEW

Number of devices* Power IQ can manage and monitor
	Hardware Appliance	Virtual Appliance
10	N/A	PWIQ10-VA
20	PWIQ20-E1	PWIQ20-VA
50	PWIQ50-E1	PWIQ50-VA
100	PWIQ100-E1	PWIQ100-VA
200	PWIQ200-E1	PWIQ200-VA
300	PWIQ300-E1	PWIQ300-VA
400	PWIQ400-E1	PWIQ400-VA
500	PWIQ500-E1	PWIQ500-VA
1000	PWIQ1000-E1	PWIQ1000-VA
1500	PWIQ1500-E1	PWIQ1500-VA
2000	PWIQ2000-E1	PWIQ2000-VA
2500	PWIQ2500-E1	PWIQ2500-VA
3000	PWIQ3000-E1	PWIQ3000-VA
4000	PWIQ4000-E1	PWIQ4000-VA
5000	PWIQ5000-E1	PWIQ5000-VA

* 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 energy efficient and find stranded power capacity.

User configurable dashboard
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
Power capacity forecast charts
Power capacity utilization gauges
Smart Rack View with Quick Charts

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.

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Product Documentation and Firmware

BENEFITS

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Features	Benefits
Vendor Agnostic Management	Through one Web browser, the scalable Power IQ manages any SNMP-metered device. You have the ability to add new devices on your own. Support is preinstalled and tested for APC®, Avocent®, BayTech®, Cyber Switching®, Cyclades®, Eaton, Geist, HP®, Knurr®, Liebert, MRV®, NetBotz, Raritan, Rittal®, Server Technology®, Sinetica, Starline Track Busway, Tripp Lite and UNITE™devices.
Reports
User Configurable Dashboard	Operational Efficiency – Display power and environmental health, rack cooling performance, energy capacity, forecasts and consumption, weather services, maps, video and much more on a large screen in slide show mode with real-time updates. Dashboard also allows you to configure screen size, layout and charts.
Smart Rack View	Operational Efficiency – Get “one click access” to rack power, cooling, humidity, airflow, events and much more with drill down to information about rack contents such as PDUs and IT devices.
Cooling Charts	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.
Capacity Forecast Charts	Improve Capacity Utilization – Forecast “days of supply” capacity at rack, row, room, lab or data center level. See actual data, forecast trend and capacity limit on a line chart.
Capacity Gauge	Improve Capacity Utilization – See maximum, current and minimum load on a capacity gauge at rack, row, room, lab or data center level
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 Charts	Reduce Downtime – Easily spot power health incidents before they become serious problems.
Vendor Agnostic Power Control
Agentless Graceful Operating System Shutdown and Outlet Control	Energy Efficiency – Reduce energy costs under normal operations and extend battery life during power failure.
Remote Power On/Off of Outlets, IT Devices, Device Groups and Racks	Operational efficiency.
Raritan Power Control Solution	Operational Efficiency – CommandCenter Secure Gateway® and Power IQ share information about devices for integrated power control.
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	Operational Efficiency – Easily integrate into your systems and tools for event management, PDU management, power and sensor data, data center modeling, asset strip management and outlet management.
Raritan DCIM Solution	Operational Efficiency – Power IQ and dcTrack® automatically share information about racks, PDUs and outlets. Add a rack in dcTrack and it automatically updates Power IQ. dcTrack displays rack PDU and sensor data collected by Power IQ
Import and Export Data Via CSV File	Leverage data and information between systems and organizations.
Centralized 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	Reduce Downtime - 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	Operational Efficiency - Saves time and improves accuracy for configuring common parameters for thousands of PX devices.
PX Firmware Management	Operational Efficiency - Power IQ reduces the time it takes to administer PX firmware updates because it helps track and distribute those updates.
Security
LDAP/AD Integration	Operational Efficiency - 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

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Question	Answer
What is Power IQ?	Power IQ Energy Management Software enables you to be more energy efficient and fully utilize your existing data center power infrastructure. Powerful cooling charts, graceful OS shutdown and bill- back reports provide you with the tools to be more energy efficient. Understand your real-time power load, rate of change and forecasted trends at all levels of your infrastructure to fully utilize your existing resources. The configurable dashboard provides a vendor-agnostic centralized view of power and environmental health, energy capacity and consumption, weather services and maps. Through one Web browser, the scalable Power IQ manages APC®, Avocent®, Baytech®, Cyber Switching®, Cyclades®, Eaton, Geist, HP®, Knurr®, Liebert, MRV®, NetBotz, Raritan, Rittal®, Server Technology, Sinetica, Starline Track Busway, Tripp Lite 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.

SCREENSHOTS

	Smart Rack View Page Our smart rack view page with quick charts provides “one click access” to rack power, cooling, airflow and events. This new view makes three-phase load balancing easy.
	User-Configurable Dashboard The user-configurable dashboard provides a large screen, centralized view of power and environmental health, energy capacity and consumption, weather services and maps.
	Power Capacity Gauge Real-time power capacity utilization at any level in your data center or lab (PDU, rack, row, busway, room, etc.). See current, maximum and minimum load over selected time period.
	Power Capacity “Days of Supply” Forecast Understand your real-time power load, rate of change and forecasted trends at all levels of your infrastructure with our capacity forecast charts.
	Central PDU Console One "pane of glass" to manage all your rack PDUs and in-line meters - APC, Avocent, Cyber Switching, Geist, MRV, Raritan, Server Technology and more
	Cooling Chart Understand if you are compliant with manufacturer's and industry-accepted recommendations, and project how much you can save by increasing room ambient temperatures.
	Vendor Agnostic Monitoring and Management Through one Web browser, the scalable Power IQ monitors and manages PDUs from APC, Avocent, BayTech, Cyber Switching, Geist, HP, Knurr, Liebert, MRV, Raritan, Rittal, Server Technology, UNITE and more.
	Create Custom Reports A powerful reporting function in Power IQ allows you to generate custom reports at the outlet, IT device, customer, department, rack, zone, floor, lab and data center levels. You can generate reports that reflect active power, energy cost and consumption, carbon footprint, temperature and humidity.
	Report by Customer or Department An example of a report that charts the energy used by a customer or department.
	Report Energy Cost You can also create reports that display energy costs over time for comparison purposes.
	Report Usage via IT device or Outlet A report charting the energy usage at the IT device level. Similar charts can be generated for usage reports at the outlet level.
	Report Carbon Footprint An example of a carbon footprint report, showing how Power IQ enables you to graph multiple devices on a single chart for comparison purposes, as well as summarize the accumulated total per period.
	Report Active Power Power IQ allows you to both create and save a number of standard reports from a single screen. You also have the ability to create and save a any number of charts within each report.
	Data Center/Building Level Settings Set your peak and off peak cost per Kilowatt-Hour, as well as carbon and cooling factors at each location.
	Floor/Zone/Row/Rack & IT Device Level Grouping & Associations Associate outlets to IT devices. Group devices by customer, type or any use defined fields.
	Group via IT Device Owner Once a customer is associated with an outlet or group of outlets, you can view all outlets assigned to that customer, along with the type of devices assigned and the power rating of each device.
	Import & Export Data Seamlessly import all data for easy set-up and export for your use.
	Export Graphed Data to CSV An example of a CSV file, exported as an “Active Power by Rack” request.
	User Configurable Data Retention Period Configure how long you want to retain data. For example, you can keep monthly max, min and ave. for 5 years.
	APC 3-Phase PDU This PDU page enables you to trend unit level active power and view current results. This is an example of an APC 3 phase rack PDU.
	Raritan 3-Phase PDU The Raritan PDU page lets you trend unit level active power and view current results at the unit, line and outlet level from all Raritan PX PDUs.
	Outlet level vs. Line Metering Raritan outlet level metering enables more precise business division and IT device reporting, which gives you greater understanding of your device usage and more accurate chargeback opportunities for your customers.
	Environmental Analytics Power IQ lets you monitor and measure rack temperature and humidity. It can also create reports that show maximum, minimum and average readings.
	User Groups & Permissions You have the ability to create a wide variety of user groups and assign permissions based on criteria that work best for you. You can assign access permissions by: Device / Rack / Rows / Rooms / Sites Functional permissions can be set up for: Settings / User management / Device management / Power Control / Report creation / Report viewing
	Scheduled Power Control Operations Schedule one time or recurring power control operations for energy efficiency or maintenance purposes, this may help you qualify for energy rebates.
	Power Control of Device Groups With Power IQ, you can set up power on/off sequence and delay of IT devices within a rack or device group.
	Local Settings Power IQ also lets you produce energy cost reports in the currency of your choice.
	APC 7900 An example of Power IQ working with an APC switched PDU – specifically, viewing power control for the unit and unit level metering.
	Agentless Graceful Shutdown Schedule one-time or recurring shutdowns of operating systems and outlets for efficiency or maintenance purposes. Use standard or custom scripts.