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Hardware Control Plane

One operational layer for every device in the facility.

Servers, GPUs, network fabric, UPS, PDUs, chillers and air handlers report into a single control plane, one alarm model, one telemetry pipeline, one API. Nine protocols, any vendor, deployed on your own infrastructure.

Built, tested, running
Southbound protocols9
Infrastructure tiers unifiedIT · GPU · Network · OT
Alarm standardISA-18.2
Redfish alignmentDMTF 2025.x
Automated tests passing490
DeploymentOn-prem · Private cloud
The operating problem

Your facility is converged. Your tooling is not.

Three device populations, three teams, three toolchains, and no shared model of what is actually happening. Every minute an operator spends correlating across consoles is a minute added to MTTR.

No unified alarm model

A UPS drops to bypass, the servers it feeds throttle, the top-of-rack BGP session flaps. Three tools, three unrelated alerts. The causal chain, power, compute, network, is invisible.

Alert fatigue without lifecycle

Threshold alerts with no acknowledgement state, no deduplication window, no escalation policy and no accountability trail. Operators triage duplicates instead of incidents.

Vendor lock-in as management

Each OEM manages its own hardware and no one else's. Fleet-wide operations become the intersection of what your vendors agree to expose.

Multi-tenancy bolted on

Cage 14 must never see Cage 12. That guarantee belongs in the database query layer, not in a UI filter applied after the data has already been read.

No modern integration surface

SNMP traps and email do not feed an event-driven operations pipeline. Streams, signed webhooks and API keys are table stakes everywhere else in your stack.

Architecture

Four layers. Every consumer reads platform state, never the device.

The control plane absorbs polling, protocol translation, session management, deduplication and authentication. The UI, an API client, a Kafka consumer and an automation pipeline all read the same authoritative record.

Layer 01
Northbound
Consumers and integrations
Operations UIREST /api/v1Redfish v1 APISSE streamSigned webhooksKafka topicsOpenAPI 3.1
Layer 02
Control plane
Governance and judgement
ISA-18.2 alarm engineHealth scoringAsset intelligenceMulti-tenant RBACAudit trailEscalation policies
Layer 03
Data plane
Collection and normalization
RedfishIPMI 2.0DCGMSLURMgNMIModbus TCPMQTTSNMPBACnet/IPTelemetry pipelineAnomaly detection
Layer 04
Infrastructure
Any vendor, any tier
ServersGPU nodesStorageRouters · switches · opticalUPSPDUsCRAC / CRAH · CDUsChillers · AHUs · VAVGeneratorsSensors
↑ Northbound: state is read from the platform, not from devices ↓ Southbound: the platform owns every session, poll and retry
What changes

Three numbers your board already tracks.

MTTR

Correlation stops being manual

Cascade suppression walks the asset relationship graph: a UPS offline alarm suppresses the downstream server alarms it caused. Root-cause grouping clusters alarms inside a 60-second window. Operators see one incident, not forty symptoms.

OPEX

One platform replaces the console sprawl

Register maps, OID maps, topic maps, BACnet point maps and gNMI path maps are configured once at the product-family level and inherited by every device of that type. Bulk import onboards fleets from a spreadsheet with fuzzy catalog matching instead of manual entry.

Risk

Every action is on the record

Every acknowledgement, shelve and clear is logged with timestamp and operator identity. Every write operation carries a before/after diff, actor and source IP, retained indefinitely, the SLA audit trail and the compliance evidence are the same artifact.

Southbound coverage

From the BMC to the chiller plant to the network fabric.

All nine protocols in detail
IT tier
Redfish · IPMI 2.0

Full topology discovery, thermal and power telemetry, chassis control and event subscriptions across iLO, iDRAC, XCC, CIMC, iRMC, OpenBMC and any Redfish-compliant BMC.

GPU / HPC tier
DCGM · SLURM

Per-GPU temperature, power, utilisation, ECC, NVLink and PCIe throughput from any dcgm-exporter, joined to scheduler state so training runs no longer read as anomalies.

Network tier
gNMI · SNMP

OpenConfig streaming telemetry, interface counters, BGP session state, optical TX/RX and OSNR, across IOS XR, NX-OS, Junos, EOS, SR-OS and optical transport.

OT / facility tier
Modbus · MQTT · BACnet/IP

UPS, PDUs, generators, power meters, CRAC/CRAH, chillers, AHUs and VAV boxes, batched register reads, wildcard topic ingestion and ASHRAE 135 point maps with write commands.

A tenth protocol does not require a release. Protocol Packs bundle a driver, a config schema and UI hints; they are uploaded, hot-registered into the live registry and versioned, with rollback, without a redeploy.

Operations UI

Built for a room that never closes.

Eighteen pages purpose-built for 24/7 NOC use, internationalized in four locales. Act Now and Watch feeds rank incidents by urgency. A geographic map carries per-account health and alarm-storm rings. GPU and HPC intelligence sits on its own configurable board, including PTLA, a composite thermal-risk score for GPU racks.

Insights: command center, analytics, GPU and HPC
Assets: inventory with A–F health grades
Alarms: full ISA-18.2 lifecycle browser
Events: live stream with severity filters
Organization: accounts, sites, location tree
Admin: catalog, protocol packs, audit log, import
Why now

Power density is rising faster than the tooling that watches it.

40–130 kW

Per rack for GPU and AI accelerator deployments, against an average of 17 kW for traditional compute.

28–33%

CAGR for AI-capable data center capacity through 2030; total capacity grows at 14%.

$3.6B

DCIM market in 2025, growing 10–18% a year, and still without a converged control layer.

$65–106B

Colocation market in 2025 at 14–18% CAGR, the segment where multi-tenant governance decides the deal.

Market data: Mordor Intelligence, MarketsandMarkets, Grand View Research, Precedence Research, Fortune Business Insights, McKinsey.

Where it fits

Four operating models, one platform.

Solutions by segment
Standards and evidence

We do not ask you to take the architecture on faith.

The platform is operational software, not a diagram. It is standards-aligned where standards exist, and its behaviour is pinned by an automated test suite and deterministic schema migrations.

ISA-18.2
The process-control alarm management standard, applied to data center operations end to end.
DMTF Redfish 2025.x
Redfish + Modbus aggregation was formalized in 2025.2; the platform implemented that architecture ahead of it, and re-exposes a compliant northbound service root.
ASHRAE 135
BACnet/IP object and point coverage for chillers, AHUs, VAV boxes and BMS gateways, with prioritized writes.
OpenConfig / gNMI
Streaming network telemetry via the vendor-neutral model that has become production standard across major platforms.
490 tests · 65 migrations
Behaviour under test and schema evolution under version control, with hardware simulators for all nine protocols so a proof of concept needs no lab.

Run a 30-day proof of concept against your own fleet.

All nine protocols can be demonstrated with the built-in simulators, then pointed at your real inventory. Bring your NOC leads, the alarm discipline is the part they will judge.

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