View the peak temperature of racks in a data center

Prerequisites
  • Privileges: Infrastructure administrator or Server administrator.

  • You have created a data center and positioned your racks in it.

  • The placement of racks in your data center accurately depicts their physical locations.

  • You have specified a thermal limit for your rack using the Racks screen, if your policy dictates a limit (optional).

Procedure
  1. From the main menu, select FACILITIES > Data Centers.
  2. In the master pane, select the data center you want to view and scroll to the Layout pane.
  3. To view the peak temperature of a rack in the last 24 hours, hover your pointer over the rack.

    A tooltip menu opens, displaying the peak temperature for the last 24 hours and when it occurred.

  4. Click a rack or click the view details link on the rack tooltip menu to view color-coded visualizations of the devices in the rack.

More information

About cooling and power data display

About data center layout

About monitoring data center temperature

Changing data center properties