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The core of the daily operation and maintenance of the data center is to ensure the uninterrupted operation of business systems at an appropriate cost and make full use of resources. Therefore, the management of IT assets that carry these services and the effective management of capacity (resources) are particularly important. On the other hand, capacity planning and management also directly determines the management level of the data center. However, in the operation and maintenance management of the data center, monitoring and forecasting are not supported by basic data, and various problems such as difficulty in maintaining asset information, difficult in positioning, difficult in inventory, and difficult in life cycle management, have led to inaccurate asset information and efficient asset management. Low, even affect the healthy operation of the business system.
Use RFID electronic tags to identify network equipment, establish network equipment database in the background (including inspection items, inspection methods, inspection cycles, etc.) and personnel information for each device. Inspectors link to the mobile terminal of the inspection system, scan the equipment to be inspected through RFID mobile devices, inspect the network equipment one by one according to the inspection items maintained in the background, and record the inspection data, and find the problems and hidden dangers in the computer room And deal with it in time to ensure the normal and stable operation of the computer room.
The characteristic information of the object to be identified collected through the radio frequency identification system is usually processed by middle software first, or the collected identification information is directly processed through computer information processing technology (such as database technology, etc.) and computer network technology (Intranet & Internet). Technology) Realize the integration, sharing, and long-distance transmission of information to directly serve related business application systems, such as the RFID data center asset intelligent management system.
The data center asset intelligent management system based on RFID technology will make full use of the advantages of RFID technology for multi-step management and control:
1) Physical asset management issues
At present, there are many types of assets, some of which belong to different business departments, and the information between departments and groups is asymmetrical. It is necessary to establish a department-oriented unified computer room physical information management interface to provide information scanning code entry, modification, query, and recovery functions; It is necessary to manage the entire life cycle of the equipment, record the serial number, name, type, location, department, purpose and other attributes of the equipment, standardize the operation of the equipment on and off the shelf, and record the full path operation information of the equipment in real time. And dock with the department’s existing process platform.
2) Asset inventory management
Too many equipment, too long inventory cycle, too much workload, traditional manual recording is difficult to ensure the accuracy of asset inventory. In the cycle of asset inventory, it is difficult to ensure whether there are cross-changes between the equipment that has been inventoryed and the equipment that has not been inventory, and it is difficult to ensure the effectiveness of the inventory work. Aiming at the common asset inventory activities in computer rooms, electronic asset inventory methods need to be introduced to solve the common problems of “large workload, low efficiency, and error-prone” in traditional asset inventory, and to realize the information management of asset inventory activities.
3) Asset maintenance management
Maintenance personnel need to solve the management of maintenance information of various IT equipment and infrastructure in the computer room, establish and maintain maintenance contracts, and manage related equipment based on maintenance contracts to realize the informatization of maintenance management and avoid equipment over-warranty. Hidden dangers and risks brought by operation and maintenance activities.
The main links of the data center asset intelligent management system based on RFID technology:
Asset electronic tags: Initialize each asset tag through the RFID card issuer, and associate the data in the tag with the information of the IT equipment as the unique identifier of the device, which is bound to the device for life;
Intelligent asset detection system: A set of RFID acquisition system is installed in each cabinet to read and identify asset information in the cabinet, and transmit it to the collection server via serial port or network;
Asset management server: This server runs an intelligent asset management system, which automatically detects RFID collection information downwards, obtains real-time equipment status, and provides asset life-cycle process management functions;
Management station: The system is a B/S structure, which can support ordinary PCs and mobile office computers to access, and perform asset viewing, search, and inventory management operations;
Handheld inventory device: The device runs an asset management APP application, which is used for mobile operations of assets or supplementary services to ensure the management of the entire process.
Warehouse asset management
For the newly added assets in the computer room, the management process of the assets from storage to storage:
Warehousing: The asset user initiates a warehousing application, fills in the asset information, and applies for warehousing. After receiving the storage application, the warehouse clerk will review and issue electronic tags to confirm the storage of assets.
Outbound: The asset user fills in the outbound application, and the asset manager receives and reviews and confirms it. There are four types of asset outbound, asset listing, personal requisition, personal borrowing and asset maintenance.
On-shelf asset management
For the asset equipment in the rack, the management process:
Assets on the shelf: Put the assets in the designated position of the designated cabinet.
Location change: When the location of an asset needs to be changed, an asset user fills in an application for location change, and after getting confirmation from the asset manager, the asset is placed in a new location, and the system automatically updates the asset location.
Asset removal: Asset removal includes asset return to warehouse, asset maintenance and disposal, asset retirement, and other management activities that require asset removal.
Through the automatic collection of equipment data in the computer room through RFID technology, problems and hidden dangers in the computer room are discovered and dealt with in time, ensuring the normal and stable operation of the network system, and improving the efficiency and quality of the equipment inspection in the computer room. Mainly for typical faults, abnormal records, fault handling records, accurate and timely collection of equipment faults and the fast and convenient handling methods. The use of RFID technology greatly improves the efficiency and quality of equipment fault handling, and ensures network stability. Effectively improve the quality and efficiency of inspections through the use of RFID handheld device terminals. Effectively prevent missed inspections, standardize the maintenance cycle of network equipment, and improve the stability and security of the network.
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