ManageEngine has integrated facilities management capabilities into its software that until now has only been used for managing IT infrastructure.

The company is marketing the software, called IT360, as a data center infrastructure management (DCIM) solution. It provides real-time management through a single console, including work-flow automation, network change and configuration management and a 3D rack builder.

Sridhar Iyengar, the company's VP of product management, said, “Energy management rivals IT management as one of the major challenges in running an efficient data center. Typically, the IT management and facilities infrastructure management are separate worlds, which prevent data center operations teams from readily correlating facilities and IT events.

“Now, IT360 unifies the facilities and IT management in a unified DCIM console, so data center admins can easily see facilities and IT relationships and manage the complete data center proactively.”

Among the new features is passive device management, which lets data center operations teams monitor and control passive infrastructure components in the data center, including power, cooling control systems and other non-IT assets.

The operations team can remotely monitor and manage the passive devices as well as manage asset lifecycles. IT360 can also report on power usage effectiveness (PUE), data center infrastructure efficiency (DCiE) and provide KPI reports on energy efficiency across sites and regions.

Workflow automation functionality relies on more than 70 work-flow templates to automate routine tasks that data center admins would otherwise perform manually or write scripts to automate.

Network change and configuration management lets data center admins configure multi-vendor network devices, such as routers, switches and firewalls directly from the IT360 console. In addition, IT360 can detect a configuration change in a network device, alert admins to the change and roll back the device to its previous, pre-change state.

The 3D rack builder enables data center staff to create an exact three-dimensional replica of their data center infrastructure on screen. Admins can easily build racks and check the health of associated network elements via the drag-and-drop console.