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Announcing Modius OpenData v3.1 Release

Modius Releases Version 3.1: Continually Improving Its Flagship Platform

November 2009

Modius, Inc. is pleased to announce the general availability of a new release of its flagship product, OpenData® v3.1. This release includes several new end-user features plus significant improvements to product stability and supportability.

Highlights in this release include:

  • Point Value Displays - Point value displays allow the values of specific performance metrics calculated by the OpenData system to be displayed and updated in real-time against graphical navigation screens. The PV display show the units for any selected value chosen by the user as an overlay on a specific screen, and then the name of the point is displayed during mouse roll-over. This feature allows customers to create a wide variety of dashboards, such as a real-time display of the current PUE for several locations against a regional or global map. The same technology can be used for rack-layout grids or single-line drawings.
  • Report Performance Improvements - Because OpenData captures significant amounts of data every minute from the equipment that it monitors, the size of the performance management database at the core of the system creates many challenges for reporting purposes. In this release, Modius has improved the performance of reports from 30-90% by implementing several clever features for compressing and accessing data.
  • Restart Synchronization - OpenData system reliability has been significantly improved by synchronizing the restart of data collectors. Data collection restarts are now synchronized with database and Event Manager restarts, which eliminates a variety of timing related restart issues.
  • Silent Failure Notifications - Release 3.1 also includes significant improvements to internal availability monitoring. OpenData now includes self-checking of system health on a continuous, real-time basis, and when a Collector failure is detected, an alarm is sent.
  • Disabled Alarm Indicators - Release 3.1 now includes visible indicators for disabled alarms. Users often disable specific alarms when performing maintenance on equipment. The new release now contains special visual indicators that alert users if these alarms are not subsequently turned back on after being disabled.