One of the things that can keep co-location data center managers up at night is the worry that customers will unknowingly exceed their capacity and trip a breaker resulting in the possibility of an unplanned outage.

You know realtime alerts are critical for running your data center. But to be really useful they can't take too long to set up or result in false notifications.  Packet Power's EMX Energy Portal application has a unique Policies tool that allows an alert to be set up in under a minute and applied to as many monitoring units as you need. Here's how it works.

Circuit aproaching overload? Intake temperature way too high? When something is going wrong in your data center, you need to be notified immediately. Packet Power's EMX Energy Portal application makes this easy even for very large monitoring networks. In fact, EMX offers two types of realtime alerts -- Policies and Alerts. Here's when to use one versus the other.