Automated infrastructure management systems and methods for enabling real time energy management

摘要

Automated infrastructure management systems and methods document infrastructure elements within a facility, provide a comprehensive record of all network-connected equipment within a facility, and facilitate trouble shooting of network-connected equipment. An automated infrastructure management system includes a plurality of intelligent patch panels, each comprising a plurality of connector ports connected to individual communication channels of a network, a controller in communication with at least some of the intelligent patch panels that obtains connectivity information for the intelligent patch panel's ports, and management software in communication with the controller. The management software performs various functions including correlating the interconnection information for the intelligent patch panels with the physical location information for telecommunications in its database, applying energy management policies to a respective communication channel, providing real time physical location information for devices connected to communication channels to a network switch, and displaying real time physical location information of the devices.

主权项

1. An automated infrastructure management system, comprising:
a plurality of intelligent patch panels, each comprising a plurality of connector ports connected to individual communication channels of a network; a processor in communication with at least some of the intelligent patch panels that obtains connectivity information for the communication channels extending through the connector ports on the intelligent patch panels; memory coupled to the processor; and computer program code residing in the memory that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform the following:
determine real time physical location information for telecommunication outlets that are connected to respective ones of a plurality of network switch ports through respective ones of the plurality of communication channels; andcontrol a network switch to apply a first energy management policy to at least a first of the communication channels by selectively providing power to the first of the communication channels through a first of the network switch ports,wherein the first energy management policy selectively provides power to the first of the communication channels and cuts off power to the first of the communications channels on a predefined schedule.