Knuerr Pte Ltd, Knuerr offers a variety of solutions for equipment storage & server management requirements.

Power Management Solutions
Alongside the delivery of reliable power to the network environment, issues of power management are also a key concern to the network manager: unauthorized use of power outlets, locked-up equipment, in-rush current, overloaded circuits, and the need of remote access to power outlets within a rack.

These concerns are addressed with a range of intelligent power strips that, coupled with Power-Hawk or Hawk-i, can provide remote power control and remote power monitoring over IP, providing the benefits of
• SNMP management (gets / sets / traps)
• Inbuilt web server
• Telnet communications.
Additionally, the power strips have terminal emulation, which is accessible via a KVM switch.

Uses of the intelligent power strip solutions include:
Power balancing
IT infrastructure managers can ensure that the individual phases available within the data centre are correctly balanced.
This helps prevent infrastructure failure and makes more efficient use of power delivery components such as UPS, generator, harmonic filters etc. This also enables the infrastructure to be matched to actual enterprise needs.
Power Availability check
Power is provided to the load point using normal power delivery equipment. This usually has a finite limit before a circuit breaker cuts in to prevent overloading and dropping the load (maybe your application servers!). This can be avoided by monitoring power closely.
Billing Stream
Monitoring KWhr enables certain organisations to bill their customers (Web hotels, hosting companies etc.) for consumed power thereby adding to their income revenues.
Remote Reboot & Power Control
Locked up or unresponsive equipment can be rebooted remotely, saving on site visits. In addition, the power strips can be used for sequenced start up of devices to prevent in-rush current.

Power strip features
• Aluminium housing with sockets angled for optimum cable dressing

• Integral pull-out 19” mounting brackets

• Clip feet for side OR end mounting (end mounting achieves an offset position to clear adjacent equipment)

• Rear or straight cable entry permits flexibility of cable feed to the PDU.

• External earth facility if required. Earth bonding to the cabinet is easily achieved.

• Fully shrouded switches remove the possibility of accident switching.

• Available in a wide variety of formats allowing customers to specify number of outlets, type of outlets (IEC, Schuko, UK etc.) maximum power through-put , individual socket fusing, individual neons, even colour of sockets.

• Can be specified for power monitoring only, or to combine power monitoring with individual outlet control. Power strips with power monitoring provide readings for RMS Amps, RMS Volts and Total Power KW/hr. Each reading has upper and lower thresholds and upper and lower control thresholds. The crossing of a threshold can be used to generate an SNMP alarm.

• Individual outlet control can be pre-programmed to sequence outlets up and down in a controlled pattern preventing high in-rush currents.