RPCM.Cloud

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2021: RPCM.Cloud 0.14.0: Telegram alerts about the status of power management modules

On July 14, 2021, RCNTEC announced the release of the next major update of the RPCM.Cloud 0.14.0 cloud service.

RPCM.Cloud allows you to infrastructure to collect telemetry and remotely monitor intelligent power management modules RPCM Smart PDU with zero time and money in your own.

According to the manufacturer, in the presented version of the cloud were implemented:

• Notifications - now users can receive alerts about events on RPCM'ax (from the English Resilient Power Control Module) in Telegram, using an easy-to-configure event filtering system;
• Connect to any device using the link directly from the control panel. Users can select the desired RPCM and connect to it in one click.

Among the improvements implemented:

• Outlet icons in Graphs are now colored based on the current state of the ports;
• Added the ability to switch from the outlet page to Graphs with positioning on the graph of a specific outlet;
• Added the ability to go to the device group from the RPCM list;
• Now, clicking on the device in the RPCM list, you can get into the form RPCM'a with its outlets.

Thus, customers using RPCM Smart PDU are given the opportunity to be aware of the state of the power infrastructure in real time directly messenger Telegram in - without the need to allocate and support their servers and. software

RPCM.Cloud is a free service for all users of RPCM Smart PDU Power Management Modules throughout the warranty support period.

2020: Improve Groups, Maps, Charts and Ports in RPCM.Cloud 0.13.0

On April 1, 2020, RCNTEC announced the release of the RPCM.CLOUD version 0.13.0 update.

RCNTEC continues to improve intelligent power management systems - RPCM Smart PDU together with RPCM.CLOUD.

Several sections of RPCM.CLUD. RCNTEC developers tried to make them more useful to users by providing access to the information that users most need with as few actions as possible that users must perform to get the result.

This release makes the Group more useful. RPCM.CLOUD now shows in the Groups the totals of the instantaneous and accumulated consumption values for all RPCMs in the groups. With this, customers can now see "like at their fingertips" the overall consumption of their racks, server rooms, and even entire Data Centers with the ability to delve into details. This allows customers to quickly check detectable facts and find ways to optimize power consumption in their power infrastructure.

Locations in the Groups and on the Map now allow you to quickly assess the presence and severity of problems on the entire client power infrastructure by highlighting locations with appropriate colors.

Graphs now make it much easier to find useful patterns during troubleshooting and patterns to optimize consumption, thanks to implemented presets of time ranges with which users can quickly upload the necessary consumption history.

Finding specific groups of outlets within the ranges of instant consumption or voltage, as well as cumulative consumption counters, has now become much faster thanks to the implementation of logical functions in Port filters.

And also, the Help section was improved, making it easier for users to learn the details of using the rich functionality of RPCM.CLOUD, some details were improved and several unpleasant problems were fixed.

Using the RPCM.CLOUD features presented, users can see how their intelligent power management infrastructure, built on the basis of RPCM Smart PDU, gives them the best opportunities to optimize and solve problems.

The following is a list of improvements to this update:

• In Groups, you can now see the total telemetry for the group. RPCM.CLOUD will show the cumulative accumulated kilowatt hours or instantaneous consumption for all RPCMs in the group. Plus, the cloud will highlight the group with the color of the most critical status on the RPCM'ax members of this group.
• On Deshboard, in Graphs and Magazines in RPCM.CLOUD were added ready-made presets of dates for convenient selection of the query period: Last - 90, 30, 7, 1 day. Last quarter, month, week, day. Current - quarter, month, week, day.
• In the Maps section, marked locations will be highlighted with the color of the most critical status of all RPCMs in this location.
• In the Ports section, you added more options to select the right data from the entire scope. Users will be able to use OR (| |) or AND (& &) boolean expressions to select the values they want.
• The Documentation section was redone - it became more convenient and understandable.
• Fixed error displaying date of last message to cloud from devices. For devices that have never transmitted data about themselves, it will be written "never" instead of "50 years ago."
• The logic of showing the window informing about the expiration of the warranty on the devices has been changed. Users will be able to postpone the warning by clicking Show Later.
• Fixed an error that causes the service to fail to sign in.

RPCM.CLOUD is free for RPCM Smart PDU with active warranty support.

2019

Release 0.12.0 RPCM.Cloud

On December 24, 2019, RCNTEC announced the release of update 0.12.0 of the RPCM.CLOUD cloud service. The list of changes and improvements includes the following items: - To help eliminate possible unexpected repair costs, now when entering the cloud, a reminder will be indicated in advance on which devices the warranty service period is coming to an end.

• Filters in Ports are smarter! You can now filter the ports with counters and instantaneous values. For example: ma > 1000 - will show ports on which the current is more than 1000 mA.
• In the Devices section, you can now filter and search for devices as conveniently as on ports! For example: kwh > 1000 - will show devices with a counter kVt⋅ch more than 1000. Or sw <= 0.7.7 - покажет устройства у которых версия software is lower than 0.7.7 inclusive.
• For convenience added Dark Mode of cloud service design
• Fixed a problem with displaying data on Dashboard for users who have only added DC devices.
• Counters for all devices are now loaded almost instantly
• Fixed the problem, which led to the fact that events about short circuit actuation, malfunction, etc. may not be displayed on the ports in the Graphics section.

Release 0.11.0 RPCM.Cloud

On December 4, 2019, RCNTEC announced the release of the 0.11.0 RPCM.CLOUD cloud-based power infrastructure monitoring solution based on the intelligent power management modules RPCM Smart PDU.

Release 0.11.0 added features to improve the ease and security of monitoring the power infrastructure, as well as changes to the user interface.

Added demarcation for cloud users within the same company.

In Dashboard, it became possible to choose which events to show on the graph and log.

The ability to download client device logs in the formats - TXT and CSV was also added.

To prevent users from missing news about RPCM Smart PDU and RPCM.CLOUD, RCNTEC developers added the ability to subscribe to announcements about the release of software versions and other important news.

RPCM.Cloud Production Release

On November 22, 2019, RCNTEC announced the release of RPCM.Cloud, a cloud-based power infrastructure management solution based on RPCM Smart PDU intelligent power management modules.

RPCM Smart PDUs provide a high level of functionality integration. These include control of each socket, consumption measurement, short circuit isolation, over-current and voltage protection, automatic reserve input, watchdog 'and (watchdog timers) to automate the reloading of dependent equipment, ground control, load retention in the power budget, software and firmware updates without interrupting power supply, and much more. All this is combined with a convenient user interface created by a development team with extensive experience in managing large-scale business-critical infrastructures with high availability requirements.

Intelligent RPCM Smart PDUs help many customers increase availability, reduce inaccessibility time, and save on capital and operating costs.

Once our customers start using RPCMs, they quickly need a centralized monitoring and management system to collect telemetry, logs, plot, group RPCMs according to their location, manage their lifecycle, etc. Building such functionality from scratch requires a lot of effort to create, ensure fault tolerance of the solution and its support. Moreover, in the modern world, engineers often need to provide secure remote access to data in order to make quick and correct decisions. We provide ready-made centralized monitoring and management functionality for free with every RPCM purchased, providing access to the RPCM.Cloud cloud. All you need to do to gain access is register an account for the company with RPCM.Cloud and add your RPCMs, "said Denis Neshtun, co-founder and CEO of RCNTEC.

From the moment they register RPCMs, they begin to send telemetry to the RPCM.Cloud cloud, and customers access the following features:

• Dashboard with data from all RPCMs of the infrastructure in a single screen
• Detailed current, voltage, frequency, and power graphs (active, reactive, and full) for each input and output of each RPCM'a
• Manage the lifecycle of the entire RPCM fleet to keep software and warranty versions up to date and keep devices up to date
• Logs and telemetry to solve complex technical problems and detect unauthorized electricity consumption
• Access to RPCM software updates and support end date information
• Grouping RPCMs to reflect their real location to quickly find all graphs and logs when time loss is critical
• Map RPCMs to Geographic Locations to Quickly Find Electrical Infrastructure Elements
• Flexible monitoring of total consumption for each input and output for time intervals of interest to the customer
• Ability to scale graphs interactively to refine kilowatt hours at intervals of interest
• Visual forecasting of monthly power consumption by equipment for different load modes
• Quickly search the power infrastructure by sorting by consumption, accumulated kwh, etc., and filtering by name, description, and problem status

The RPCM.Cloud cloud is free for RPCMs with active warranty or extended warranty support.