OpenData3_2_Release

Announcing Release of Modius OpenData v3.2

New Release of OpenData Enables the Data Center Ecosystem by Federating Power & Environmental Intelligence to Other Management Systems

March 2009

Modius, Inc. is pleased to announce the general availability of a new release of its flagship product, OpenData® v3.2. This release includes several new major enhancements to integration capabilities with other major management systems in the enterprise, as well as improved manageability features for enterprise-class environments.

Easy Integration with other Reporting and Management Systems:

  • Expanded Web Services Interface for Easier Reporting – Modius has expanded its web services interface to now provide access to historical data as well as current values. 3rd-party reporting and other Business Intelligence tools now have full access to query the OpenData web services interface to extract as much current value or historical data as needed. This improved capability greatly improves deeper-level integrations between Modius OpenData and other reporting and management systems in the enterprise.
  • Improved Asset Management Support – Modius OpenData has also expanded its web services interface to support the use of device IDs from asset management systems. By allowing OpenData to assign and store device IDs persistently in the system, Modius now enables easy integration with asset management systems such that current performance values can be easily queried from OpenData and displayed in the asset management interface. This feature allows asset management systems for more easily report real-time performance data, such as power consumption, for the assets they track.
  • Native RF Code Integration for Converged Environmental Monitoring – Modius OpenData now has a dedicated integration capability to RF Code wire-free environmental sensor management system. RF Code is an early member of the Modius Technical Alliance Program (MTAP), which promotes integrations with other data center management systems. Environmental sensor data from RF Code’s Zone Manager can now be directly consumed in Modius OpenData with full alarming, display and data storage capabilities. This integration with RF Code’s environmental monitoring system allows Modius to generate a converged view of power, cooling, and environmental in a single consol. For more information, please visit our Converged Environmental Monitoring page.
  • Improved SNMP Trap Management for Easy Alarm Integration with other Systems – Modius OpenData has improved its ability to both generate and receive SNMP traps to or from other systems. This expanded SNMP capability allows for easy integrations with other management systems for pushing or receiving alarm data or other types of performance data. For example, when OpenData generates an event alarm, this alarm can be automatically pushed to other systems that can receive SNMP traps, thereby by allowing other systems to manage the notification and escalation process. Likewise Modius OpenData can receive the traps from other systems and manage the notification and escalation process locally.

Improved Enterprise-class Manageability:

  • Simplified Management of Distributed Data Collectors – Release 3.2 of OpenData now includes greatly improved management of distributed data collectors. The new features greatly simplify management of collectors by offering the ability to bulk create and upload collectors to different sites across the enterprise. For large scale deployments, the number of collectors can sometimes run into the hundreds, particularly when distributed IDF closets or server rooms across an enterprise are being monitored in real-time. These new manageability features allow operators to more easily manage large numbers of collectors directly from the OpenData management consol.
  • Expanded Platform Flexibility – Modius has expanded its support for different operating systems, moving the product toward full operating system independence and greater flexibility and choice for customers. Modius OpenData 3.2 now supports Windows, HP NonStop, and Linux. As part of the move toward platform flexibility for customers, Modius will be supporting PostgreSQL for both Linux and Windows in Q2.