ITA: Cooling Optimize (on-premises only)

In the Cooling Optimize web client, you can edit the temperature set points used for cooling control and turn the cooling units on and off.   User rights are required to launch to the Cooling Optimize web client. Go to System Setup > User Rights and Authentication > Launch to Cooling Optimize > Save and close.   To launch the web client, go to the right-click menu of any Cooling Optimize item and select Launch to Cooling Optimize.   You can view and change the temperature set points of your racks in the Set Points tab.   The Equipment tab shows the state of the equipment, for example, cooling rate, power usage, and origin of on/off control. You can manually override units in the facility and turn your cooling units on and off.

A benchmark report can be created to compare the energy usage for a before and after time period. The report can be generated for each room and for the site total.   Power savings are quantified via power monitoring on the controlled cooling units.   Calculated chiller power is included in the savings values for chilled water units.   Greenhouse gas reductions are calculated based on the following default conversion rates: 1.32 lbs./kWh and 0.59 kG/kWh.   The report is available from Analytics > Reports if you have a valid IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize license.   Filter selections   Baseline time period Verification time period Cost per kWh Currency Chiller coefficient of performance (COP)    Create a report with your baseline measurements so they are easy to retrieve.  

You can generate a Temperature Compliance report to show the average temperature for a rack, room(s) or location for a specific date range, and identify racks that are performing outside their threshold range.   The report is available from Analytics > Reports if you have a valid IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize license.    Report filter options   Data range Temperature thresholds Tag selection Note: The temperature distribution tables are based on the individual rack upper and lower threshold set in the Set Points tab in the vx-tool.   The report also includes middle sensors, if you have them in your configuration.  

Configure user credentials to allow IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize to communicate with Vigilent and receive cooling and temperature data.   Go to System Setup > External System Configuration. Click Add   and select IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize as the system type. Type the server identification: name, IP address, port. Add the API Token. The API Token allows secure communication with the Cooling Optimize server. The API Token can be created in the Cooling Optimize CX tool by a user with administrator rights. Click Test to verify the connection. If you are unable to launch Cooling Optimize, verify that an ITA user exists on the Cooling Optimize server. Verify the Polling interval. Note: Check Proxy Launch to device through IT Advisor server only if the Cooling Optimize Server is on another network and you must use the IT Advisor server as a proxy because there is no direct access to the Cooling Optimize server. Associate the devices found in Planning > Device Association > Cooling Optimize to the servers and CRAC units representing them in the floor layout. Verify that the data has been associated to servers and CRAC units.  

Recommended minimum Vigilent version to configure integration with IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize Note: The Cooling Optimize integration was reintroduced in IT Advisor in version 9.3.7.   ITA Vigilent 9.3.7 Vigilent® System 6.5.1r06   Vigilent CX 6.5.0a06

IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize continuously optimizes airflow in the data center facility, delivering improved reliability and availability.   Cooling Optimize is a closed-loop system that reacts to real-time data from the temperature sensors. Data is wirelessly transmitted to network gateways, aggregated, and sent to a purpose-built appliance where it is analyzed by control software. Control commands are then delivered to the cooling equipment. As IT load changes, the built-in machine learning automatically adjusts cooling output to match the dynamic data center environment.   You can use it to automatically identify and eliminate hot spots and to help diagnose potential facility risks. The system constantly adapts cooling through the use of its artificial intelligence engine.   Cooling Optimize Influence Map   Installation   Installing IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize is part of a service deal. Please contact your local sales representative.   Configuration   You can configure IT Advisor: Cooling Optimize integration in System Setup > External System Configuration.   Associate discovered assets   You can associate a discovered asset with the temperature sensor or CRAC unit representing it in the data center layout by dragging it from the Unassociated Devices pane on top of the corresponding equipment in the rack layout. You can also associate multiple assets by using the multi-associate option.   Configuration   Configuring Cooling Optimize integration Configuring the Cooling Optimize web client   Reports Cooling Optimize Benchmark Report Temperature Compliance Report