Ideal temperature and humidity for a data room
I was talking to my friend Chuck the other day about how cold it was in our office and joking about how the computers probably like it. The fluctuations we are seeing back in June was pretty wild. I emailed him the SNMP trends that we maintain of humidity and temperature.
Ravica’s environmental probes support SNMP. To make sure we stay on top of our data center cooling. There is an OID available to gather the sensor measurements such as smoke, water, voltage, etc.
“Humidity is directly related to the temperature, so monitoring temperature and humidity together is critical. Keeping your data center or IDF closet humidity levels between 45% and 55% is recommended. While maintaining an ambient temperature range of 68° to 75°F (20° to 24°C) is optimal for system reliability.”
Chuck Cahoon
Solutions Architect – CDW
Cisco Systems CCIE# 15255
E-mail: chuck.cahoon@cdw.com
Since they support SNMP, you can use MRTG, Denika Performance Trender or other programs to gather it. Check out this Denika humidity trend graph we created by polling the SNMP OID on the BitSight:
Notice above that you can highlight any spike and drill in for greater detail. Check it out, they cost about $250.00.
- Mike
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