# Datacenter monitoring

OpManager enables in-depth system visibility, real-time performance monitoring, and proactive fault detection to help you optimize datacenter operations!

- Monitor datacenter infrastructure
- Keep tabs on PDUs & climate sensors
- Visualize datacenters floors
- Forecast resources & perform capacity planning

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Overview](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/datacenter-monitoring-widget.webp)

## What is a DCIM software?

DCIM or datacenter infrastructure monitoring software enables IT admins and technicians to review the status and performance of the core components of a datacenter. Generally, DCIM software are used to manage IT systems like servers, network, and storage, as well as datacenter support systems like power delivery units, battery backups, and cooling systems.

## Datacenter monitoring with OpManager: A quick walk-through

### Improve server infrastructure visibility and incident response

- **Server availability monitoring:** OpManager ensures high availability by continuously [monitoring critical servers](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/server-monitoring.html?data-center), alerting you to downtime, and escalating notifications for swift response.
- **Server performance monitoring:** Eliminate bottlenecks for servers, VMs, and HCI systems by tracking key performance indicators such as CPU, memory, disk utilization, temperature, and hardware with multi-level alarms and detailed reports.
- **Process & service monitoring:** Maintain continuous operation by monitoring processes and Windows services, gaining insights into resource usage, and remotely managing critical services.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Server performance monitoring with OpManager](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-server.webp)

### Gain more control over the network with end-to-end monitoring

- **Network uptime monitoring:** OpManager ensures [continuous network availability](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/network-uptime-monitoring.html?data-center) by monitoring devices, links, interfaces, VPN tunnels, BGP, VLANs, IP SLA, and protocols like BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP.
- **Network performance monitoring:** Optimize network quality by monitoring key metrics like packet loss, response time, and jitter, with multi-level alarms for quick fault identification in Layer 2 networks and paths.
- **Interface monitoring:** Eliminate bandwidth constraints by tracking interface uptime and utilization, visualizing traffic flow with dedicated performance graphs.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Network and interface monitoring with OpManager](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-network.webp)

### Optimize storage performance with extensive monitoring and capacity planning

- **Storage disk monitoring:** [Monitor storage infrastructure](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/storage-monitoring.html?data-center) systems, including individual components like disks, RAID arrays, and LUNs, as well as overall capacity. Monitor storage hardware health to prevent failures.
- **Storage tape monitoring:** Track the health, performance, and capacity of your tape libraries and drives, with access to essential details like vendor, model, and firmware version.
- **Storage network monitoring:** Effectively manage your Storage Area Networks (SANs) by overseeing fabric switch health and performance, discovering switch ports, and analyzing traffic levels.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: RAID storage monitoring with OpManager](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-raid.webp)

### Improve datacenter resilience with power and hardware monitoring

- **PDU monitoring:** [Monitor hardware health](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/hardware-monitoring.html?data-center), energy consumption, and power supply quality in your datacenter by tracking metrics like status, voltage, and current, set up alarms to prevent unplanned outages.
- **UPS monitoring:** Ensure business continuity by overseeing your power backup system's health and performance, monitoring UPS devices and batteries for degradation to prevent data loss during outages.
- **Hardware health monitoring:** Keep critical servers, networks, storage, and datacenter chassis systems running optimally by tracking processor performance, cooling fans, PDUs, and batteries.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Hardware monitoring in OpManager](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-voltage.webp)

### Monitor sensors and IoT systems to maintain optimal conditions

- **Cooling system monitoring:** Track the temperature of your datacenter components, with alarms for high temperatures and color-coded graphs for visualizing cooling system performance.
- **IoT monitoring:** [Monitor IoT components](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/IoT-monitoring.html?data-center) to ensure your datacenter's climate, including temperature, humidity, and airflow, adheres to ASHRAE standards.
- **Sensor monitoring:** Monitor the uptime of sensors used to track the temperature, battery health, battery capacity, and more.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Temperature monitoring in OpManager](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-temp.webp)

### Enhance datacenter management with visualization and mapping

- **Datacenter floor views:** [Map your datacenter sites](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/datacenter-visual-modeling.html?data-center) by incorporating designed rack views into a floor plan, allowing you to track servers by grid numbers and rack positions for streamlined maintenance and troubleshooting.
- **Server rack views:** Visualize your datacenter by adding servers to a graphical rack representation, customizing server images, and monitoring their status directly from the view.
- **Organization maps:** Get an end-to-end mapping of your datacenter infrastructure, across the network, server, and application layers.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Datacenter visualization with floor views](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-rack-view.webp)

### Enforce disaster recovery and business continuity plans across datacenters

- **High availability monitoring:** OpManager has a [high availability monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/high-availability-monitoring.html) mode where you can add multiple server instances in an active-active or active-passive configuration. This helps OpManager identify failover servers and monitor them accordingly. In addition, you can also set up a high-availability backup for OpManager's monitoring server, ensuring that you have uninterrupted monitoring for your datacenters.
- **Load balancer monitoring:** Monitor your datacenter's load balancers by observing their performance and traffic distribution, allowing you to track health and manage traffic redirection for continuous and effective business operations.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: Failover and high availability monitoring](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-high-availability.webp)

## Managing datacenter resources with OpManager

### Capacity planning

- Manage datacenter compute and storage capacity with in-depth capacity planning reports that highlight under-utilized and over-utilized devices.
- Alleviate performance inefficiencies, prioritize resource allocation based on criticality, and detect resource-greedy systems.

### Resource forecasts

- OpManager's AI/ML engine analyzes the current utilization levels of the CPU, memory, and storage systems and predicts the number of days left till 80%, 90%, and 100% capacity.
- Set up alarms to warn you when system resources are predicted to be exhausted in a certain number of days

### Sprawl identification

- Leverage specialized virtualization reports to detect over-utilized and under-utilized virtual machines and potential virtual sprawl scenarios.
- Track logical connections between hosts, VMs, and datastores to track the VMs consuming your system resources.

![Datacenter monitoring in OpManager: IT resource management with OpManager](https://cdn.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/images/datacenter-monitoring/dc-mgmt.webp)

## Popular vendors supported by OpManager

### Network infrastructure vendors

- Arista Networks
- Aruba Networks (HPE)
- Broadcom (Brocade)
- Extreme Networks
- Fortinet
- Juniper Networks (HPE)
- Nokia
- H3C Technologies
- Palo Alto Networks
- Riverbed Technology
- Ruckus Networks (CommScope)
- SonicWALL
- Sophos
- Cisco

### Server vendors

- Dell Technologies
- HPE
- Huawei
- IBM
- Lenovo
- Microsoft
- NEC
- Oracle
- Supermicro

### Storage vendors

- Acronis
- Hitachi
- NetApp
- Pure Storage
- Seagate
- Veritas

[Check out more supported vendors and device types!](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/device-discovery/?data-center)

## Enabling rapid incident detection and response in your datacenters with OpManager

### AI-driven monitoring

OpManager leverages its in-built AI/ML engine to automatically calculate and adjust performance monitoring alerts. It does this hourly, by analyzing historical data and typical usage patterns of each device. This eliminates the need for manual alarm configuration, allowing OpManager to adapt to changing system behaviours and significantly reduce alert noise from expected fluctuations.

### Automated workflows

Using OpManager's drag-and-drop workflow feature, IT teams can build and execute [code-free workflows](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/it-workflow-automation.html?data-center). These workflows consist of sequential, outcome-based actions chosen from over 70 unique options. They offer flexibility, able to be triggered by alarms or set on a time-based schedule. This capability allows for the easy automation of basic troubleshooting, diagnostics, and incident response.

### Root cause analysis

In datacenters, identifying the root cause of a performance issue can be challenging due to the large number of devices and metrics involved. [Root cause analysis](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/root-cause-analysis.html?data-center) profiles simplify this process by allowing you to view relevant performance graphs stacked on top of each other and side by side. This arrangement helps in correlating data to pinpoint the source of a problem efficiently.

### ITSM integrations

OpManager's integration with ITSM tools like ServiceDesk Plus, ServiceNow, Freshservice, and Jira helps streamline your incident response. It can convert alarms into tickets, automating assignment, prioritization, and categorization. Additionally, you can sync your monitoring console with helpdesk tools to ensure your Configuration Management Database (CMDB) stays automatically updated.

## Key datacenter monitoring metrics supported in OpManager

- CPU utilization
- Memory utilization
- Bandwidth usage
- Partition details
- Temperature
- Power supply & voltage
- Battery status
- Disk IOPs
- Storage capacity
- LUN statistics
- SAN & port status
- Volume statistics
- Errors
- Response time
- Packet loss
- Interface statistics
- Switch stack details
- BGP Peer status

## Benefits of using a DCIM software

### Scalability and flexibility

OpManager is suited for all network sizes and types: whether your requirements are localized or distributed, for small or large networks, across public, private, or hybrid datacenters: OpManager's editions, add-ons, and plugins help you scale your monitoring along with your requirements.

### Improved security practices

Real-time monitoring helps you detect abnormal events that might signify potential breach events for security lapses (Like DDOS attacks). OpManager can also help you monitor compliance violations, firmware vulnerabilities, firewall logs, change detection, and other security statistics.

### Unified infrastructure visibility

OpManager's NOC (network operations center) dashboards and alarms help you keep constant surveillance over the entire datacenter infrastructure. No matter the nature of the issue: network, hardware, software, or resource-based, you'll get notified from a single console with the nature of the issue and the insights to fix it.

### Optimized datacenter performance

OpManager supports monitoring for over 3000 key performance indicators by default. This, combined with intuitive reports, colour-coded graphs, and root-cause analysis tabs, help you narrow down performance bottlenecks and inefficiencies that maybe affecting datacenter performance.

### Better productivity for IT teams

Automate discovery, classification, alarm setting (AI-driven), escalation, and remediation processes. This cuts down repetitive and manual work and helps your team focus on strategic tasks. OpManager also supports multi-channel notifications, including SMS, push notifications, ITSM, and chat-tool integrations, enabling your IT teams to stay aware of the datacenter components anytime, anywhere.

### Cost-effective pricing plans

OpManager's device-based licensing offers more features and functionalities at a lower price when compared to other monitoring vendors in the market. Prices are transparent and consistent and are optimized to offer the best ROI for the customers. You can check out the pricing in our online store, or get a quote for your unique requirements.

## Datacenter monitoring with OpManager: FAQs

### How does OpManager monitor datacenter components?

OpManager monitors the availability and performance of various datacenter systems through agent-less and agent-based monitoring.

- Network protocols used by OpManager:
  - SNMP (v1, v2, v3)
  - ICMP
  - TCP
  - WMI
  - CLI
  - Nutanix Prism API, and so on

Agent-based monitoring is done with the aid of a monitoring agent that's installed in each datacenter system. The agent gathers relevant data from each systems and pushes it to OpManager.

### Can OpManager monitor any datacenter component?

If the datacenter system is connected to your network, then OpManager can monitor. For instance, if you use IoT sensors to monitor the humidity in your datacenter and the sensors are connected and reachable through the network, you can monitor it in OpManager. Similarly, OpManager can monitor any datacenter component that can be reached via an IP address or a DNS name.

### Are customized monitors supported for IoT sensors used in datacenters?

Yes, OpManager supports custom monitors for certain IoT sensors used in your datacenters. There are two pre-requisites for this:

- The sensor should be reachable through the network: OpManager uses IP addresses or DNS names to perform data collection
- The sensor should support SNMP: OpManager uses custom monitors using SNMP OIDs

### How does server rack views and datacenter floor views help?

Rack views and datacenter floor views are visualization tools that help you monitor the location, uptime, and health of servers in your datacenter.

A rack view lets you simulate a server rack, allowing you to drag and drop server devices into place. Once these racks are set up, you can then add them to a datacenter floor view.

This floor view also allows you to include other elements like walls and walkways, giving you a complete layout.

With this setup, you get a visual representation of your datacenter where each server can be precisely located using a number on its rack and an alpha-numeric grid on the floor.

This means you can easily direct a technician to a specific server by simply providing its exact location from the datacenter floor view. For added flexibility, these floor views can be displayed in either 2D or 3D.

### Can OpManager monitor multiple datacenters from a single location?

Yes, OpManager's enterprise edition is specifically designed to monitor distributed locations from a single console. The enterprise edition uses a probe-central model to scale up the monitoring across geographic locations.

The probe servers can be deployed in each location to perform data collection. The probes communicate with a central server through the WAN and relay uptime and performance statistics.

Network technicians in the central location will be able to view the alarms, reports, performance data, insights, and all relevant data collected by the probe servers from a single console.

### Can OpManager monitor public cloud infrastructure?

OpManager's Applications Manager plugin (which is an in-product plugin) can be used to monitor public cloud components like Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, and OpenStack.

- You can track the following things:
  - Performance of Infrastructure components like VMs, databases, containers, and load balancers
  - Latency and response of cloud applications
  - Resource consumption trends and forecasts for cloud resources
  - Cloud costs and spending

## Discover more on DCIM

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- [Network monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/network-performance-monitoring.html?data-center)
- [Storage monitoring](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/storage-monitoring.html?data-center)

### Quick links

- [Blogs](https://blogs.manageengine.com?data-center)
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- [How to fix high CPU temperature: A network admin's checklist](https://blogs.manageengine.com/itom/opmanager/how-to-fix-high-cpu-temperature-a-network-admins-checklist.html?data-center)
- [RAID configurations](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/tech-topics/raid-configurations.html?data-center)
- [Datacenter Visualization](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/datacenter-visualization.html?data-center)

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