APC NetBotz Environmental Rack Monitors

The NetBotz 250 from APC by Schneider Electric is an affordable environmental monitoring appliance for all IT environments. It protects your computing equipment from physical threats such as high temperature, humidity, fluid damage, and both malicious and unintentional access events.

With native support for NetBotz wireless sensors, the NetBotz 250 allows for a rapid deployment of your environmental monitoring solution. With its shallow 19" form factor, the NetBotz 250 can be mounted in a rack alongside your other IT gear, or zero-U mounted in the back.




The appliance has six on-board ports for connecting various NetBotz wired sensors, including temperature, temp/humidity, smoke, and spot fluid detection sensors, as well as third party sensors via a dry contact cable. Additional dedicated ports include a beacon port, voltage output, relay output, and Modbus connections, for monitoring the device over Modbus RTU or TCP.

Thresholds, alerts, and notifications are configured through either the NetBotz 250 web UI or via StruxureWare Data Center Expert. The Data Center Expert integration is especially valuable when you need to manage multiple NetBotz appliances through a single pane of glass. For environments that do not require surveillance, the NetBotz 250 is the fastest and most affordable solution to protect IT gear from physical threats.



Best in Class Value

Included with the NetBotz Rack Monitor 250 is a wireless sensor starter kit, including a Zigbee wireless network coordinator and wireless temperature sensor, in addition to a wired temp/humidity cable. This means the NetBotz 250 is ready to start protecting your IT environment within minutes.

Benefits of the wireless sensors include:
Ease of deployment - when in auto-join mode, the NetBotz wireless sensors will be automatically commissioned.
Reduced cabling - wireless sensors are not saddled with high cabling costs and rigid deployments constraints.
Flexibility and adaptability - with magnetic mounting, wireless sensors can be moved periodically to evaluate hot spots or new areas in dynamic IT environments
Protection

Password Security - User-selectable password protection prevents unauthorized access, authorized against LDAP and Active Directory servers.
Manageability

Easy Integration - Integrates with APC racks, NetBotz sensors, and Data Center Expert for easy deployment, configuration, and management.
Browser accessible - View the user interface with a browser. Provides quick access from anywhere on a secure network.
Enterprise management system compatible - Make device information available to your preferred enterprise management system by forwarding SNMP traps (events) across SNMPv1, SNMPv2 and SNMPv3 using the PowerNet MIB
Integrates with StruxureWare Data Center Expert - An IT-ready, scalable access monitoring system that collects, organizes, and distributes critical alerts, surveillance video and key information, providing a unified view of complex physical infrastructure environments from anywhere on the network
Marketing Features

Fault notification - Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT Administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.
Browser accessible - View the user interface with a browser. Provides quick access from anywhere on a secure network.
Handheld device support - Sends PDA-formatted alerts including pictures and link to live video to your Palm/Blackberry/PocketPC.
Customized escalation policies - Alerts are managed according to your escalation policies and received in multiple formats.
Scalability - The extensible platform can be scaled to meet changing business needs and requirements on demand. The management of additional devices is allowed as needed, while powerful facility and service management applications help to expand the product's management capabilities.
Event-driven video storage - Video storage prompted by motion or alert.
Custom mapping - Custom backgrounds, unique user-assignable icons, and drag-and-drop device placement make it easy to identify problem devices at a glance, minimizing downtime, errors, and cost.
Encryption - Helps ensure effective access control and integrity for SSL browser and SSH sessions.
Availability

Reboot equipment remotely - Saves dispatching technicians to remote locations.
Reduce Cabling - Features wireless sensors to reduce the clutter and expense of cabling.
Fault notification - Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT Administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.
Environmental monitoring - Prevent equipment failure from a full range of threatening environmental conditions.
Access monitoring - Detect access by unauthorized personnel via door switch.
Agility

Flexibility and adaptability - Can be the environmental monitoring solution, or the rack access control solution, or both.
Slim form factor - Can be mounted in a rack alongside other IT gear, or zero –U mounted in the back
Adjustable threshold - Customize threshold definitions (multiple thresholds per sensor, scheduling, severity levels) to your requirements.

Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.

Key features
Physical access control
Compliance ready
Surveillance

Native wireless sensor support




4-Port POE Switch
Built-in true private network switch for use with NetBotz Camera Pod 165 (NBPD0165).

Built-in Access Control Ports

Appliance includes integrated access control and door contact sensor ports for use with the stand-alone 125 kHz handle kit (NBHN125) and contact kit (NBES0303).

Dual Rope Leak Inputs

Dual rope leak sensor ports allow additional leak detection in two different directions.

Expansive Security and Monitoring

Supports up to 78 wired sensors, 47 wireless sensors, access control for 26 rack doors, and 4 camera streams downstream of a single IP address.

HD Camera Support

Supports the new HD, Low Light Camera Pod 165 (NBPD0165).

Rack Access Pod Support

Supports up to 12 Rack Access Pod 170's (NBPD0171) connected via daisy-chain.


Sensor Pod Support

Supports up to 12 Sensor Pod 150's (NBPD0150) connected via daisy-chain.

Physical access control

Grant authorized people access to equipment through proximity card.authentication.

Compliance ready

The rack access handle kits, provide an audit trail on who is accessing the enclosures so the organization can easily comply with data security regulations.

Surveillance

Detect and record motion, allowing a visual record to be paired with an access or environmental alert, which speeds root cause analysis.

Native wireless sensor support

Manage up to 47 NetBotz wireless temperature and temp/humidity sensors from a single NetBotz.