Data Centers

Five Data Center Management Apps

By // April 16, 2013, 5:24 AM PST

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  • IO.AR

    This screenshot gallery is also available as a post in the TechRepublic Five Apps Blog.

    In this edition of Five Apps, we take a look at five data center management apps that span the spectrum of IT needs in performing various data center-oriented tasks.

    IO.AR is an app from IO data centers that can be used by data center managers to discover IO's products.  The app contains several products' descriptions that can be viewed by tapping on the icons above.

    Screenshot of IO.AR by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IO.AR

    IO.AR also contains an Augmented Reality feature that allows users of the app to view additional products that aren't included in the basic screen.

    Screenshot of IO.AR by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IO.AR

    Tapping on the objects in the AR view zooms into a closer view of the product and displays the product description.

    Screenshot of IO.AR by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • OpManager

    OpManager is a device management system.  On initial launch of the web site, a discovery wizard pops up and offers to scan your network.  The scan found 5 of my home devices that were online at the time.

    Screenshot of OpManager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • OpManager

    In some cases, devices will automatically be categorized - the rest will appear as Unknown where the administrator can manually categorize.  On the dashboard, administrators can see these devices in their categories, maps of the device layout, and various types of alerts.

    Screenshot of OpManager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • OpManager

    Drawing maps is simple in OpManager.  Simply drop the devices on a background or blank sheet and connect them with links.

    Screenshot of OpManager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • OpManager

    OpManager also has a single device display that shows statistics based on SNMP messages captured.

    Screenshot of OpManager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • Big Brother

    Quest Big Brother is a service monitoring tool that can keep track of various hosts and the external services they provide.

    Screenshot of Big Brother by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • Big Brother

    Big Brother uses a simple red/green status display to show the administrator the status of their services.

    Screenshot of Big Brother by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • Big Brother

    The color bars on the side show the overall health of your environment - in a worst case situation.  So, because my PC isn't publishing any of the services I'm expecting it to, the overall health is red.

    Screenshot of Big Brother by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • StruxureWare Operations Visor

    StruxureWare Operations: Vistor links with the StruxureWare management server and displays these statistics on your entire datacenter.

    Screenshot of StruxureWare Operations Visor by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • StruxureWare Operations Visor

    Each statistic has its own dashboard showing usage and capacity over time.

    Screenshot of StruxureWare Operations Visor by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • StruxureWare Operations Visor

    Administrators are also able to look at the assets themselves and how they're organized into racks.

    Screenshot of StruxureWare Operations Visor by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • StruxureWare Operations Visor

    Tapping on a device in a rack displays more in-depth statistics on that device.

    Screenshot of StruxureWare Operations Visor by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IT Manager

    IT Manager allows administrators to connect to various cloud services and individual servers.

    Screenshot of IT Manager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IT Manager

    Individual connections are stored on the home screen as tiles.

    Screenshot of IT Manager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IT Manager

    For Windows RDP, a few pieces of system information are displayed.  With an additional subscription purchase, admins can manage running services without logging in to the desktop as well as reboot or shutdown the device.

    Screenshot of IT Manager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IT Manager

    The Remote Desktop has a fairly standard look and feel but the on-screen keyboard has more available keys than I've seen in other RDP apps.

    Screenshot of IT Manager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

  • IT Manager

    IT Manager also has several network tools available.

    Screenshot of IT Manager by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

IO.AR

This screenshot gallery is also available as a post in the TechRepublic Five Apps Blog.

In this edition of Five Apps, we take a look at five data center management apps that span the spectrum of IT needs in performing various data center-oriented tasks.

IO.AR is an app from IO data centers that can be used by data center managers to discover IO's products.  The app contains several products' descriptions that can be viewed by tapping on the icons above.

Screenshot of IO.AR by Wally Bahny for TechRepublic

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