Proactive Monitoring

Features and Benefits

• Continuously monitor the computer key parts status and automatically alert.
• Combine BIOS hardware monitor and the OS performance monitoring message of the computer

Overview

Moxa’s Proactive Monitoring is a small-footprint, easy-to-use utility that allows you to track a number of system parameters and automatic visible or audible alert via relay and SNMP Trap.

Proactive Monitoring provides a dashboard to keep an eye on CPU usage, memory usage, storage partition usage, the operating temperature of the CPU and motherboard, and the redundant power monitor. It can trigger relay outputs to provide either visual or audio alarms. What’s more, you can configure the tool to trigger these alarms based on user-defined criteria.

• Remote Monitoring in a Few Clicks
  Proactive Monitoring provides an utility for setting up the key parts you’d like to monitor, when to alert, and how to get the alert.
  
• Ready-to-Use Tool
  Proactive Monitoring supports Windows and Linux operating systems, making it a ready-to-use tool for every type of business.
• Easy Integration with APIs
  For system integrators or users who already have their own dashboards, Proactive Monitoring also provides APIs for easy integration. 

Supported Moxa Devices

White Paper

Implementing a Predictive Maintenance Strategy for Substation Computers 

Most of us have heard of or have personally experienced power blackouts as a result of poorly maintained power grids and substations. The situation tends to get more challenging if it involves a substation or part of a grid situated in a remote location that is hard to reach because sending an engineer to troubleshoot and fix issues onsite might take a long time. Also, depending on the cause of the outage, engineers with different expertise might be required to solve the issue in a substation network. A predictive maintenance system for the equipment and devices in a substation will in the long run almost eliminate such downtime and reduce costly shutdowns. Download this white paper to find out about implementing a predictive maintenance strategy for substation computers to keep your substations up and running.……more

White Paper

How to Get the Best Out of the IIoT with Predictive Maintenance 

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is shaping the way industrial applications are designed and implemented today. The IIoT is ushering in a new era of operational efficiency, information transparency, and economic growth. Innovative ideas on how to collect data, how to transform data, and how to use the data to increase efficiency and reduce costs are sprouting up all around us. The IIoT has bridged the gap between the physical and digital worlds and has created one combined space that provides limitless possibilities. In addition, the relentless pursuit of excellence in the IIoT world has renewed an interest in predictive maintenance solutions that ensure higher equipment reliability and system uptime…….more

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Intelligent Automation for the Maintenance and Recovery of Software Platforms

Automation advances in industrial processes increasingly involve using industrial PCs for the control and monitoring of every sort of machinery and process. Yet as industrial PCs penetrate ever further into the automation stack, the problem of data loss and system corruption becomes a critical consideration both for the security issues raised as well as overall system availability. In this white paper we examine the software and hardware features that constitute an effective, fully automated, BIOS initiated, block-level software recovery solution that can be used across any industrial environment, whether following emergency crashes or for automated preventive maintenance……more

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System Redundancy in Power Substation Retrofits

System redundancy in power substation retrofitting applications can be deployed using either decentralized or centralized system architectures. In a decentralized architecture, network redundancy is ensured by multiple physical computers where each computer only runs a single operating system or application. In a centralized architecture, on the other hand, network redundancy is achieved by running multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same physical server (i.e., server virtualization).
Although both decentralized and centralized architectures can be used effectively to provide retrofitted power substations with system redundancy, system integrators still need to be mindful of protecting against a number of control and management issues…….more

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Using MMS and SNMP to Integrate IT Management for Substation Automation

The devices that electrical substation automation systems are built from depend on highly precise, time-critical communications. Substation thus often use highly specialized monitoring systems to tackle this problem, but can approach it using different technologies. The most up-to-date, “smart” substations use the Manufacturing Messaging Specification (MMS) for communications among IEC 61850 intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), allowing SCADA to monitor and control IED states as well as process switchgear and transformer data directly. However, IT networking devices have been increasingly applied in IEC 61850 systems, and this equipment communicates using SNMP. Consequently, in the modern substation automation industry it’s clear that, for the time being, SNMP and MMS will continue to exist side-by-side. For designers and integrators of electrical substation equipment, bringing both MMS and SNMP support to IT equipment is an ideal, one-size fits-all alternative that allows for the greatest flexibility and adaptability around……..more