Managing your data center infrastructure can be a nightmare unless you have the right tools. Here's how to install one such free tool called openDCIM.
If you're looking for an open source data center infrastructure management tool, look no further than openDCIM. Considering what you get for the cost of the software (free), this is a web-based system you'll definitely want to try.
With openDCIM you can:
- Provide asset tracking of the data center
- Support multiple rooms
- Manage space, power, and cooling
- Manage contacts' business directories
- Track fault tolerance
- Compute Center of Gravity for each cabinet
- Manage templates for devices
- Track cable connections within each cabinet and each switch device
- Archive equipment sent to salvage/disposal
- Integrate with intelligent power strips and UPS devices
If you have an existing Ubuntu server handy (it can be installed on a desktop as well), you can get openDCIM up and running with a bit of effort. The installation isn't the simplest you'll ever do; however, I've worked out some of the challenges and present an easy walk-through of installing this powerful system on Ubuntu.
Installing openDCIM
If you don't already have a LAMP stack installed on the Ubuntu machine, do so with these simple steps.
- Open a terminal window.
- Issue the command sudo apt-get install lamp-server^
- Type
