Latin America. Industry leaders Emerson Network Power, Lenovo and OSIsoft today showcased the practical application of a Redfish-based technology, which is designed to accelerate and enhance the actual deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) platforms at the edge of the network.
The integrated system, which enables complete visibility and control of all systems through a REST-based Redfish Application Programming Interface (API), represents the first Redfish application to go beyond managing an out-of-band server.
The companies made the joint announcement at the start of the Intel Developer Forum held in San Francisco, U.S. Emerson Network Power participated as an exhibitor at the conference.
The system responds to the need for operational efficiency in edge computing. At the network edge, banking, manufacturing, healthcare facilities, and retailers face challenges in enabling connectivity and continuity of their services across multiple sites that are not designed to host IT infrastructure.
The convergence of Emerson, Lenovo, and OSIsoft technologies addresses these challenges by increasing security, accelerating deployment speed, simplifying equipment lifecycle management, minimizing outages, and maintaining a low total cost of ownership through modern, easy-to-use REST APIs.
The system uses the Emerson Network Power SmartCabinet™ already integrated with electrical infrastructure, sensors and communication to support two Lenovo System x3550 M5 servers adapted with RESTful APIs using an Emerson connectivity engine. An IoT gateway with REST enabled offers a system dashboard, allows you to manage the entire system and add data from servers, electrical and thermal equipment, sensors and security equipment.
Lenovo System X Servers and Flex System Compute Nodes make up integrated management Module II (IMM2), which is a highly secure service processor used to discover, track, and monitor system inventory and to manage system configuration, firmware, and virtual address. New Redfish-compatible REST APIs offer modern, secure, and scalable out-of-band remote access to IMM2 from external IT applications. Initial REST API support for IMM2 focuses on server management roles.
Using the Emerson Connectivity Engine between the OSIsoft PI System and the gateway allows the PI System to function as system log data to provide analysis and information. This includes calculating and displaying an information efficiency metric first displayed at the Intel Developer Forum.
