EcoStruxure™ IT Data Center Expert ('DCE') Enterprise Appliance provides remote monitoring and management capabilities for your Data Center. It supports up to 4025 devices and 250 surveillance cameras. It is part of the EcoStruxure IT DCIM suite of applications, which enables your business to manage their data centers across multiple domains. The DCE software collects, organizes, and distributes critical alerts, surveillance video, and key information, providing a unified view of complex physical infrastructure environments from anywhere on the network.

• Alarm filters: Customize the user interface to display devices in critical, warning or normal device statuses.
• Auto-discovery: Reduces the time needed to install and deploy physical infrastructure devices by automatically detecting manageable devices on your network.
• Centralized Alert Repository: Access historical alerts from several appliances through one central database. Sort alerts by type, date, appliance, and/or device group.
• Centralized management: Simplify data center infrastructure management by using a centralized repository accessible from anywhere on the network through a powerful and easy-to-use console application.
• Custom mapping: Custom backgrounds, unique user-assignable icons, and drag-and-drop device placement make it easy to identify problem devices at a glance, minimizing downtime, errors, and cost.
• Custom reporting: Create, save and schedule user-defined reports for ease of data collection, distribution and analysis.
• Customizable user access: Define user access and viewing capabilities to individual groups. Control access to devices by administrator-defined user accounts. Additional user access can be managed by using the built-in LDAP and Active Directory Support.
• Encrypted communications: 128 Bit, SSL encrypted communications between client and server, as well as encrypted user IDs and passwords stored on the server to help protect your resources
• Extendable architecture: Available node and application license keys extend the capabilities of the platform allowing it to grow to meet changing business needs.
• Fault notification: Real-time event notification minimizes response times to critical physical infrastructure situations. Enables IT Administrators to reduce mean time to repair, improve efficiency, and maximize uptime.
• Free text search: Quickly locate devices and alerts through the free search field.
• Graphical trending analysis: Access current and historic data for any device or group of devices. Plot and graph multiple data points in a logical correlation to visualize potential hazardous trends.
• Integrated data storage: StruxureWare Data Center Expert ships with internal storage for data and video collection. Additional storage can easily be made available using the built-in Network Attached Storage server support for long-term storage and archiving.
• Mass firmware update: Decrease set-up time and complexity of managed devices by simultaneously upgrading firmware for multiple APC devices.
• Multi-vendor device support: Extensive multi-vendor support for monitoring networked SNMP devices. Enable visibility of existing SNMP devices through threshold alert notifications, data trending and reporting.
• Private networking: Reduce IP addresses needed on the public network to manage devices, by placing them on an isolated secure network.
• Surveillance add-on application: Enhance visibility of your critical assets with physical threat management to monitor and record all activity in secured areas. A centralized repository allows the user to review, search and tag surveillance events for future needs.
• Unified console: Customizable Windows and Linux client application enables instant access to StruxureWare Data Center Expert application from anywhere on the network.