Environmental Monitoring Software

Overseer Network Monitor is capable of monitoring your data center's environmental state(temperature, humidity, wetness) using the Sensatronics EM1/E4/E16 monitors. The EM1, E4, and E16 monitors are very simple-to-install network devices. Monitoring your data center is critical to the well-being of your equipment. You can easily lose thousands of dollars of hardware if your A/C unit stops working and you are unaware.

Overseer Network Monitor can monitor your data center's temperature, humidity, and wetness using an EM1, E4, and E16 monitors and appropriate probes. If your datacenter or server room becomes unfriendly to your equipment(too high or too low), Overseer will send you a notification via Email or text message.

Environmental Monitoring Features:

Monitor ambient temperature

Utilizing the Sensatronics EM1, E4, or E16 units, Overseer can monitor the ambient temperature of your server room or data center. Servers and networking equipment are generally very sensitive to extreme temperatures, so this is the most critical metric for environmental monitoring software to monitor.

Monitor relative humidity

Overseer can also utilize the Sensatronics EM1 to monitor the relative humidity of your data center or server room. When humidity falls too low, the risk of static electricity increases, which can damage equipment. Humidity that is too high can cause condensation, also risking damage.

Wetness detection

The EM1 unit, combined with the appropriate probe, can also detect wetness, such as spills or leaks. This can be useful for detect leaking utilities, AC units, sprinkler systems, etc. Wetness, obviously, is a major danger to all electronic equipment.

Data Logging to CSV

Overseer can also log all the EM1/E4/E16 data to a CSV file. This can be useful for historic information, or consumption in another program(such as Excel, for graphing).

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Overseer can do far more than just ping network devices. See the full Overseer monitoring capabilities page for more.