APC AP9490 communications server software

InfraStruXure Central Standard and InfraStruXure Manager Bundle A vendor-neutral, scalable monitoring system which collects, organizes, and distributes critical alerts, surveillance video and key information, providing a unified view of complex physical infrastructure environments from anywhere on the network

Includes: CD with software, Installation guide, User Manual

AP9490 Features
- Custom mapping
Custom backgrounds, unique user-assignable icons, and drag-and-drop device placement make it easy to identify problem devices at a glance, minimizing downtime, errors, and cost.
- Centralized management
Simplify management of the physical infrastructure using a centralized repository accessible from anywhere on the network through a powerful and easy-to-use console application.
- Authentication
Control user privileges and access rights to protect IT assets from unauthorized individuals.
- Exportable reports
Reports can be easily exported into Word, Excel, rtf, and Crystal Reports format, allowing customers to quickly and easily integrate reports into custom presentations or sort information for custom reports.
- Mass Configuration
Provides a comprehensive mass configuration capability, allowing users to create, save, and push configurations or specific device settings to similar APC devices with a Network Management Card.
- Centralized Alert Repository
Access historical alerts from several appliances through one central database. Sort alerts by type, date, appliance, and/or device group.
- Data graphing
Easily analyze sensor readings to identify problematic trends before they escalate.
- Hierarchical device groups
Organize your appliances according to physical location or organizational structure.
- Fault notification
Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT Administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.
Compatible with Add-On Surveillance Software
Optional physical threat management application that enhances visibility of a company's critical assets, and creates a centralized searchable repository of all surveillance events as they occur.
- Auto-discovery
Reduces the time needed to install and deploy physical infrastructure devices by automatically detecting manageable devices on your network.
- Scalable Architecture
Cascade multiple KVM switches for a modular solution that supports multiple platforms, improving flexibility and simplifying future expansion. Please see the user's manual for specific cascading capabilities.
- Notification groups
Group devices to ensure the right people receive warnings to prevent and fix potential problems in a timely manner.

Manageability
- Centralized management
Simplify management of the physical infrastructure using a centralized repository accessible from anywhere on the network through a powerful and easy-to-use console application.
- Real-time monitoring
Immediate visibility to your entire physical infrastructure through centralized, real-time device monitoring and notification enabling quick assessment of events as they occur.
- Fault notification
Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT Administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.
- Multi-vendor device support
Extensive multi-vendor support for monitoring networked SNMP devices. Enable visibility of existing SNMP devices through threshold alert notifications, data trending and reporting.
- Unified console
Customizable Windows and Linux client application enables instant access to InfraStruXure Central application from anywhere on the network.
- NMS Integration
Integrate SNMP traps into an Enterprise Management System, allowing users to view alerts generated by devices managed by InfraStruXure Central
- Free text search
Quickly locate devices and alerts through the free search field.
- Alarm filters
Customize the user interface to display devices in critical, warning or normal device statuses.

Agility
- Auto-discovery
Reduces the time needed to install and deploy physical infrastructure devices by automatically detecting manageable devices on your network.
- Mass Configuration
Provides a comprehensive mass configuration capability, allowing users to create, save, and push configurations or specific device settings to similar APC devices with a Network Management Card.
- Mass firmware update
Decrease set-up time and complexity of managed devices by simultaneously upgrading firmware for multiple APC devices.
- Custom mapping
Custom backgrounds, unique user-assignable icons, and drag-and-drop device placement make it easy to identify problem devices at a glance, minimizing downtime, errors, and cost.
- Private networking
Reduce IP addresses needed on the public network to manage devices, by placing them on an isolated secure network.
- Advanced device grouping
Define user access and viewing capabilities to individual groups. Control access to devices by administrator-defined user accounts. Additional user access can be managed by using the built-in LDAP and Active Directory Support.

Availability
- Graphical trending analysis
Access current and historic data for any device or group of devices. Plot and graph multiple data points in a logical correlation to visualize potential hazardous trends.
- Custom reporting
Create, save and schedule user-defined reports for ease of data collection, distribution and analysis.
- Centralized Alert Repository
Access historical alerts from several appliances through one central database. Sort alerts by type, date, appliance, and/or device group.
- Integrated data storage
InfraStruXure Central ships with internal storage for data and video collection. Additional storage can easily be made available using the built-in Network Attached Storage server support for long-term storage and archiving.
- Localized user interface
Provides a localized user interface including alerts and alert descriptions in 10 local languages

Adaptability
- Extendable architecture
Available node and application license keys extend the capabilities of the platform allowing it to grow to meet changing business needs.
- Web services API
Provides the ability to integrate InfraStruXure Central data and events into existing IT applications and tools capable of making web services calls
- Surveillance add-on application
Enhance visibility of your critical assets with physical threat management to monitor and record all activity in secured areas. A centralized repository allows the user to review, search and tag surveillance events for future needs.
- Add-on modbus TCP output module
Integrates data and select events from devices managed by InfraStruXure Central into an existing Building Management Systems through ethernet transmission
- Integrates with InfraStruXure Management applications
Achieve integrated energy efficiency, predictive planning and real-time data center operations through the add-on InfraStruXure Management applications; InfraStruXure Operations, InfraStruXure Capacity, InfraStruXure Change, InfraStruXure Energy Efficiency, InfraStruXure Energy Cost & InfraStruXure Mobile.

Protection
- Customizable user access
Define user access and viewing capabilities to individual groups. Control access to devices by administrator-defined user accounts. Additional user access can be managed by using the built-in LDAP and Active Directory Support.
- Encrypted communications
128 Bit, SSL encrypted communications between client and server, as well as encrypted user IDs and passwords stored on the server to help protect your resources
- Remote monitoring support
Web-based service that serves as a second set of eyes into the health of a company's physical infrastructure. Experienced professionals work non-stop to provide 24-hour monitoring and to help diagnose problems before they become critical.