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PARLON PDU FLEET MONITORING SOLUTION
Power is the one resource your data center can’t oversubscribe.
The Parlon PDU Fleet Solution gives operations and facilities teams a live, fleet-wide view of rack power, thermal conditions, and cost, down to a single PDU.
THE PROBLEM
Rack density keeps climbing, and power, not floor space or compute, is often the first thing operators run out of. Cross a PDU’s breaker rating and the result is an unplanned outage, not a warning.
Most infrastructure monitoring was built to watch servers and networks. It wasn’t built to watch the PDUs feeding them. Teams are left reconciling vendor-specific power figures by hand and finding out about a breaker limit at the moment it trips.
WHAT IT DOES
What the Parlon PDU Fleet Solution does
Fleet-wide power & thermal visibility
Real-time total power, peak draw, fleet load percentage, and average inlet temperature across every rack, filterable by site, feed, and vendor.
Per-PDU load ranking
Every PDU ranked by how close it is to its breaker limit, so the rack most at risk is always the first thing on the page.
A/B feed redundancy at a glance
Load bars colored by feed show whether the partner side can carry the load if one feed drops, before it becomes an incident.
Cost & CO₂ down to the site
Model electricity rate, grid carbon intensity, and PUE to see what fleet power draw actually costs, in dollars and carbon, ranked site by site.
SEE IT IN ACTION
Watch PDU Fleet live on a running data center
FREE DOWNLOAD
The PDU Fleet Solution Guide
Every stat card, threshold, and URL parameter, plus three end-to-end scenarios for onboarding a PDU and building a rack power budget.
WORKING SCENARIOS
How teams actually use it
Onboarding a new PDU
A new PDU is being polled but shows “Capacity not set.” Now what?
- Confirm it appears in the per-PDU load list once SNMP resolves its vendor
- Open its inline “Set capacity” editor
- Enter rated capacity, breaker rating, phase count, site, rack, and feed
- Save — its load badge, and the fleet-wide load %, now reflect real headroom
Building a rack power budget
Planning new equipment for a site. Is there room?
- Filter to the site and feed you’re planning around
- Note each rack’s breaker rating and current load % in the per-PDU list
- Cross-reference against the Capacity page’s compute headroom for the same racks
- A rack can run out of power before it runs out of compute, or the reverse — check both
$1M+ / HOUR
WHY IT MATTERS
Cost of downtime reported by 41% of enterprises. A breaker trip doesn’t check your budget first.
DEPLOYMENT & COVERAGE
One fabric, every rack.
Parlon reads the standard SNMP telemetry that intelligent PDUs already publish, across every major vendor, including APC, Raritan, Eaton, Vertiv/Geist, and Server Technology, and normalizes their vendor-specific power figures into one consistent view. Every reporting PDU flows through the same Normalization Engine as the rest of your infrastructure and appears in Parlon’s unified asset inventory, so power sits alongside compute, network, and storage instead of in a separate tool. Because it reads the protocol your PDUs already speak, there’s no new agent to deploy and no per-vendor integration to maintain. That vendor-neutral foundation is what lets the PDU Fleet Solution work across mixed hardware from day one.
SOLUTION
The Overview tab, at a glance
