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End-of-Life Announcement for the EMX-line of Smart Rack Controllers
The EMX-line of Smart Rack Controllers have been discontinued and are now end-of-life.
The SKUs affected by this announcement include:
| Discontinued SKU | Replacement |
| EMX2-111 | SRC-0100 |
| EMX2-111-KIT | SRC-0100-KIT |
| EMX2-888 | SRC-0800 |
The key milestones related to this announcement include:
The new replacement products, the full suite of the SRC-line of Smart Rack Controllers, will be available in late 2020. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact us.
The Raritan EMX is a central connection point for all of Raritan’s environmental sensors. The EMX smart rack controller offers up to eight sensor ports, eight feature ports for Raritan’s dynamic asset-tracking solution and eight RS-485 ports, all in a 1U form factor. Raritan’s rack monitoring solution helps data center and facilities managers:
• Minimize the hours needed to track IT assets.
• Ensure uptime by monitoring racks for possible hot spots.
• Save on cooling costs by confidently raising data center temperatures.
• Maintain cabinet security w/ USB webcams and contact closure sensors.
• Improve data center uptime by receiving environment alerts.
• Make strategic decisions on environmental design and modifications.
Support for up to 128 optional external plug-and-play sensors that monitor and help manage critical environmental conditions.
View real-time images and video remotely and maintain cabinet security with USB webcams and contact closure sensors.
Accessible via 10/100 Ethernet or Wi-Fi so you can use existing wired network infrastructure or avoid the cost of pulling cables.
Works with Raritan’s Power IQ Data Center Infrastructure Monitoring software which can consolidate data from several EMXs and PX iPDUs, making DC management easier.
Built-in connectivity for environment sensors, serial, USB, wired or wireless network, and asset management tagging makes this the smartest Rack Monitoring controller available today.
Real-time remote monitoring of all sensor data and asset information and status of all devices in the rack.
At the rack visibility of all sensor data with capacitive touch buttons for easy operations.
With Raritan’s unique Asset Management Tags (AMTs) and Asset Management Sensors (AMSs), get accurate, automated, real-time inventory of all IT assets and their locations, down to the 1U level.
Users can define thresholds and receive alerts via SNMP, email, and syslog when thresholds are crossed for both asset and environmental events.
EMX2-111 small form factor controller supporting up to 16 sensors and 1 rack of assets or EMX2-888 1U controller for up to 128 sensors and 8 racks of assets.