Monitor and Protect Your Server Room or Data Center with the new TempDefender IT...

Could you estimate how much money your company has invested in your IT server room or data center? How much is your network uptime worth to you? These questions might be difficult to answer, but monitoring your valuable IT equipment certainly doesn't have to be.

You need a compact, simple, and reliable device to monitor basic environmental conditions (like room temp, humidity, smoke...) around your valuable equipment. Without this basic visibility, it's just a matter of time before your investment in your server room is seriously damaged.

Meet the TempDefender IT
This small device keeps tabs on all the environmental levels that affect your servers, phone closets, data centers, and other equipment locations. The 8 discrete alarms on the back panel are used to monitor dry contacts, such as motion sensors, UPS, smoke detectors, flood sensors, AC and room entry. With 4 digital sensor inputs on the back panel, you'll stay protected from environmental threats by keeping tabs on temperature, humidity, power and more.

The TempDefender IT can monitor your server room/closet with smoke detectors, humidity sensors, floor water sensors, temperature sensors,door sensors, interior motion sensors, and more.

With the built-in web interface, you'll log on to the TempDefender IT from anywhere on the network to edit your threshold settings and view the current status of the room. What's the current room temperature? When was the last time someone entered the room? Get all of this information - right from your network PC.

Don't wait until the day your AC unit fails and your server closet overheats to start protecting your gear. This small, 1RU device alerts you of changing conditions 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, either to your cell or SNMP manager. The TempDefender IT is the cost-effective way to stay proactive in your monitoring.

Back panel of the TempDefender IT.


Front panel of the TempDefender IT. Craft port is used for initial unit configuration and on-site maintenance. Front-panel speaker provides local audio alert tones (which can be customized or disabled).

Get Alerted When Your Website Goes Down with TempDefender's Service Monitoring
Because you have servers, you probably have websites you're responsible for maintaining. You need to know immediately when those sites go down.

Pinging your servers regularly will not detect every website failure. How many times has your site been down, yet your server is still responding to low-level pings?

What you need is a tool that makes actual HTTP page requests and scans the page it receives. If it doesn't see the correct content that you've specified, or it sees an error message, you should get an alert - regardless of whether your web server is technically still "online." That's the tool you need, so that's exactly the tool that we've built into the TempDefender.

Dramatically Reduce Your Time Spent Installing and Databasing Analog Sensors with TempDefender's Sensor Auto-Detection
TempDefender's 4 digital sensor inputs (these are a build option, commonly known as "1-wire" ports) support simple 4-conductor cables terminated with easy RJ12 connectors. Multiple sensors can be daisy-chained into a single input port, so you can easily place sensors at locations that may be some distance away from the TempDefender itself.

1-wire sensors are also automatically detected and databased by the TempDefender. You can use the built-in web interface to enhance and customize the databasing that was done automatically, but the basic things are handled for you.

Key advantages of the TempDefender:

• Small form-factor saves on valuable rack space
• Plug 'n' Play design - Start monitoring in minutes
• SNMP-compatible - Send traps to your SNMP manager
• Receive 24/7 email notifications when environmentals cross your thresholds
• HTTP service monitoring to really know if your website is online
• 4 digital sensor inputs (each digital sensor port supports multiple "daisy-chained" sensors, with a max. of 16 sensors per TempDefender IT unit)
• 1-wire sensor ports support daisy-chaining and auto-databasing
• Telco-grade casing for enhanced durability
• Built-in web interface to monitor from any PC on the network
• Log sensor data with graphing for trend analysis
• Monitor environmentals and security conditions in your server room or data center
• Ping targets and service monitoring - Your server is up, but is your website accessible?
• Spring clamp connectors for easy alarm termination

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