NetBotz sent an engineer to our Syracuse University Real-World Labs® to help install WallBotz, but I found this unnecessary. We simply positioned the WallBotz, including the base station, camera pod and sensor pod, in a corner of our lab.
I aimed the camera at the front of the server racks, then attached a second camera pod to the base station with a USB cable and aimed it at the back of the server racks. Sensors should be mounted as close as possible to the appliances being monitored, so I set up the remote sensor pod in the rack that supports a cooling fan. I would later set the pod to detect the operating conditions of the machines in the rack, including the air flow of the cooling fans, temperature, humidity and dew point.
I set an optional fluid detector beneath the racks to detect standing water. I also connected an amp detector to a test server and installed a dry contact sensor on the glass door of the rack to keep out trouble. With the hardware in place, I turned my attention to configuring settings and alerts.
Configuration
The base station runs a Linux kernel and offers all network services, including an HTTP and HTTPS server. You can configure the device for monitoring and alerting through HTTP using NetBotz's Java-based Advanced View 2.0 software on your PC, a Linux box or a Solaris box. Without the Advanced View software, you can see only a basic Web-based view to monitor environmental conditions (to check out a basic view of our lab, see NetBotz500.w2k.nwc.com).
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