Openxtra Limited

10/05/2022

Announcing two new kits from OPENXTRA for monitoring the operational status of your computer room air conditioner and performing installation verification testing on newly installed or moved server room equipment.
https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/announcing-new-server-room-environment-monitoring-kits.html

14/04/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/announcing-the-new-akcp-sp2-with-poe.html

AKCP have introduced a new version of the AKCP sensorProbe2+ with Power over Ethernet support. This will be a boon for customers needing environment monitoring in locations without power.

17/03/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/server-room-facility-health-audit-testing.html

Facility health and audit testing should be used to proactively assess the health of your server room to avoid temperature and humidity related equipment failures.

04/03/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/avtech-release-new-room-alert-manager.html

AVTECH Software introduce a new version of Room Alert Manager providing tools to help you focus on how the temperature in your facility feels like to work in.

03/03/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/aviosys-ipedit-now-supports-linux-macos.html

Aviosys has recently released IPEdit for both Apple macOS as well as Linux in addition to the existing Microsoft Windows support.

03/03/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/avtech-free-flood-sensor-with-all-room-alert-32e-32s.html

AVTECH have announced a great new offer for March and April 2022. Buy a Room Alert 32S or Room Alert 32E from 1st March up until 30 April and receive a free 2.4m Rope Flood Sensor absolutely free.

22/02/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/high-density-data-center-monitoring-verification-and-auditing-in-the-data-centre.html

High density verification testing can be required when equipment is newly installed or moved from some other location in the server room. The objective of these tests is to ensure that the temperature and relative humidity flowing into the servers is within the acceptable range.

22/02/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/server-room-equipment-troubleshooting-testing.html

Equipment troubleshooting tests are used to determine if the failure of equipment is potentially caused by the environmental conditions in which the equipment is operating.

22/02/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/how-to-monitor-the-operational-status-of-a-computer-room-air-conditioner-crac.html

A breakdown of the status factors to measure and record for each Computer Room Air Conditioner (CRAC) unit in your computer room, data centre or server room. The paper also gives a justification for why you should record each status factor and what you should do with the information once you've reco...

22/02/2022

https://www.openxtra.co.uk/server-room-monitoring-blog/recommended-server-room-temperature.html

An exploration of the recommended server room temperature. Figuring out the right temperature for your server room can be tricky, you don't want to run your server room too hot and suffer increased component failure, but you don't want to run it too cold and potentially waste money.

02/09/2021

AVTECH have announced the immediate availability of the Room Alert 3S.

Announcing the new AVTECH Room Alert 3S is now available

21/07/2021

AVTECH have announced the imminent EOL of the Room Alert 32E and the Room Alert 12E & 12ER. See here for more info:

AVTECH announce End of Life for Room Alert 32E and Room Alert 12E/ER