CONTEG Aegis DCIM vs Global Site Management

CONTEG Aegis DCIM is web software for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data-center operating information in real time. It monitors equipment status, malfunctions, temperature, and humidity, while dashboards show PUE, EUE, and EER metrics. Energy views cover facility, row, rack, or outlet levels and electrical-breaker loads using actual and daily peak values. Capacity features address electrical and cooling resources, overbooking, and fail-over management. The datasheet describes AI-Digital Twin technology for hourly CFD creation and what-if scenarios. Integrations include SNMP v1, v2, and v3, BACnet, Modbus, OPC, XML/SOAP, database-to-database connections, and supplied Kepware OPC protocols. One server can handle up to 100,000 data points and approximately 3,000 devices; servers can expand without limit. CONTEG individually designs deployments, with editions for server rooms, enterprise data centers, and larger environments.

Global Site Management (GSM) is data center infrastructure management software for operations, capacity planning and risk mitigation. Its listed tools cover hardware discovery, real-time power and environmental data, energy analysis, outlet control and power gear configuration. Planning features include capacity modeling, failure detection and alerts, device failure impact assessment, and measurements for custom groups. Asset management includes inventory, reservations, movement audits, documents, warranty management, CSV import and work orders. Norlinx says GSM connects IT and facility equipment—including PDUs, sensors, servers, switches and storage—using common protocols such as SNMP, JSON, BACnet and Modbus, and can accommodate others. The comparison also lists Microsoft Visio integration for floor plans and devices; GSMintegrate describes trouble-ticket connections such as Remedy. GSM is deployed on-premises. Listed requirements include 64-bit Windows, 8 GB available RAM, Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft Visio Professional. The free GSMpowerlite plan is intended for smaller data centers and pilot programs; trials are generally free and last 30 days.