More than ever before, IT managers need to secure equipment and facilities against a variety of intrusive conditions that could cripple critical operations, resulting in system malfunctions, loss of data or intellectual property, damage to mission critical hardware or even theft of valuable physical assets. Such conditions often include environmental events, failure of air conditioning systems, power outages, and untoward human actions.
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Monitoring devices help protect
Princeton Computer Science facilities
More than ever before, IT managers need to secure equipment and facilities against a variety of intrusive conditions that could cripple critical operations, resulting in system malfunctions, loss of data or intellectual property, damage to mission critical hardware or even theft of valuable physical assets. Such conditions often Network-peripheral include environmental events, failure of air conditioning systems, power outages, and untoward human actions. hardware device
provides comprehensive The proliferation of increasingly strategic and sensitive networked equipment at remotely managed sites, including those monitoring and where managers or supervisory personnel are occasionally offsite, has intensified the need to assure protection against such seen management services and unseen "intruders." to IT managers who One of the solutions to covering this exposure is to provide are offsite or have comprehensive remote monitoring and protection using a network peripheral device that can provide the right combination equipment at of monitoring and management capabilities; a device that can integrate multiple existing inputs into an SNMP "trap" alarm remote locations system that delivers immediate notification via the network's native protocol.
The Princeton Challenge Chartered in 1746, Princeton was the fourth college established in British colonial America. Last year the university enrolled 4,635 undergraduate and 1,997 graduate students at its 500-acre campus located in Princeton, New Jersey. The faculty of approximately 1,000 includes recipients of the Nobel Prize in physics, literature, economic sciences, and medicine. All faculty members are expected to teach as well as engage in scholarly research.
Like other universities and research centers, Princeton has a need to protect the intellectual property of the university, students and faculty. This includes securing facilities that house expensive equipment and sensitive data. C a s e S t u d y
Monitoring devices help protect
Princeton Computer Science facilities
"Normally, the support staff members are offsite In fact, one of the department's major investments during nights and weekends," says Chris Tengi, Systems in monitoring and protection equipment was in and Network Administrator at Princeton University's motion-activated Axis security cameras that are Department of Computer Science. "But we are always mounted facing outside entries of the Computer concerned about power supply, humidity, ambient Science building, as well as the main computer room. temperature and related equipment that supports our But while the cameras addressed the need to detect facilities. If we have some sort of mishap that knocks and monitor human activity after hours, an integrated out air conditioning in the middle of the night, we need solution to monitoring and managing heat and to know about it." humidity-related situations was still needed.
The facilities that Tengi supports include the Concerned about the prospects of system problems department's main computer room and labs that house due to human or environmental impediments, Tengi workstations, PCs and other resources for Princeton's investigated the Asentria' SNMP-Link Model SL61 undergraduate and graduate students in Computer Remote Site Manager. Science, as well as research in advanced projects in areas such s alternative models of computation, Based in Seattle, Washington, Asentria has computational biology and bioinformatics. specialized in data collection devices for the telecommunications industry since 1984. The "The threats we encounter are mostly heat and company's site-management product line grew out humidity," Tengi says, "although we are certainly of an extensive experience in PBX alarm management concerned about unauthorized entry or human actions and remote equipment access, especially for SNMP that can compromise our systems." systems. These devices typically monitor critical
Asentria SL61 remote site managers were used to connect sensors that monitor heat, humidity, and door activity within three computer science r... [download for more]
