7 Essential Nlyte Connectors & Modules to Enhance Your DCIM Strategy

Maximizing the Value of Your Data Center Infrastructure 

A powerful DCIM solution is essential, but it works best when integrated with the right tools. That’s where DCIM connectors and modules come in. These integrations enhance your infrastructure by connecting Nlyte with platforms like ServiceNow, VMware, and Microsoft, giving you a unified, real-time view of your assets, energy usage, and change management processes.

To facilitate this, Nlyte provides a collection of ready-to-use extensions and plug-ins that link effortlessly with widely used systems like ServiceNow, VMware, Microsoft, Dell, HP, and more. These enhancements expand the functionality of core offerings, Nlyte Asset Optimizer and Nlyte Energy Optimizer, by enabling live data exchange, streamlined task automation, and improved interoperability.

Each connector is designed for quick deployment, minimizing setup time and avoiding the expense of custom development.

Top 7 Nlyte Connectors – Based on Customer Adoption

1. Nlyte for CMDB Integration

Purpose: Maintain an accurate and synchronized Configuration Management Database (CMDB).
How it helps: Nlyte integrates seamlessly with a variety of Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) to ensure your physical asset data is always accurate and accessible. The process begins with an initial data load, followed by reconciliation to align records between systems. From there, synchronization can be maintained either uni-directionally or bi-directionally, depending on your operational needs. This ensures that teams across IT and facilities are always working with the most current asset information, improving decision-making and operational efficiency.

2. Nlyte for Change Management

Purpose: Align change management processes across IT and facilities.
How it helps: Nlyte integrates with a wide range of change management systems, allowing you to embed change processes directly into your DCIM workflows. Users can easily incorporate change request types into Nlyte’s configurable workflows, enabling seamless coordination between IT and facilities operations. Each request can trigger the next step in the process based on either out-of-the-box or custom-defined status updates, ensuring consistent, automated progression through your change lifecycle.

3. Nlyte Audit

Purpose: Improve asset data accuracy and reduce manual errors.
How it helps: This module streamlines equipment installation by capturing changes and enhancing data accuracy directly at the point of activity. Designed with insights from thousands of hours of field auditing experience, it supports the use of handheld barcode scanners paired with tablets for efficient, on-site data entry. Users can simply scan an asset tag to verify existing information or add new assets directly into the Nlyte Content Database, reducing manual errors and accelerating deployment timelines.

4. Nlyte Receiving

Purpose: Gain control over the asset lifecycle from the moment equipment arrives.
How it helps: This module integrates seamlessly with your DCIM environment to streamline asset intake and lifecycle management. By scanning and verifying assets at the point of receipt, you can automatically trigger the next step in your workflow, ensuring accurate records and tighter control from day one. This accelerates deployment, minimizes delays, and helps get your assets operational and delivering value faster.

5. Nlyte System Utilization Monitoring (NSUM)

Purpose: Identify and address energy inefficiencies.
How it helps: Nlyte System Utilization Monitoring (NSUM) is a powerful standalone solution often referred to as the “Zombie Killer.” It delivers real-time visibility into server and device utilization, helping you quickly identify assets that are underutilized, non-compliant, or unreachable. By targeting these inefficiencies, NSUM boosts server utilization rates and supports compliance by ultimately driving more efficient and sustainable data center operations.

6. DC Smarter Integration (New)

Purpose: Improve operational visibility through augmented reality.
How it helps: Nlyte integrates with DC Smarter’s DC Vision® platform, enabling users to interact with a dynamic digital twin of their data center environment. This integration brings a new level of visibility and control by overlaying real-time data onto a 3D augmented reality model of your physical infrastructure. Users can walk through their data center virtually, identify assets, view live operational metrics, and even simulate changes before implementing them. This immersive experience enhances asset tracking accuracy, streamlines maintenance and planning tasks, and significantly improves operational efficiency by reducing the need for manual checks and physical walkthroughs.

7. ServiceNow Integration (New)

Purpose: Optimize coordination between IT and facilities teams.
How it helps: The Nlyte Service Management Connector integrates ServiceNow workflows directly into the Nlyte platform, creating a unified environment for managing IT and facilities operations. This integration allows users to initiate, track, and complete service requests and change processes within Nlyte, while maintaining full alignment with ServiceNow’s ITSM framework. By embedding ServiceNow’s process logic into Nlyte’s asset and workflow management tools, organizations can ensure consistent execution of tasks, reduce manual handoffs, and eliminate data silos between departments. The result is improved cross-functional visibility, faster resolution times, and a more cohesive approach to managing the full lifecycle of data center assets. 

See It in Action 

Are you interested in seeing how these integrations can improve your operations? Whether you're looking to streamline workflows, enhance visibility, or reduce energy waste, we can demonstrate how Nlyte connectors make it possible. 

Request a demo today  to explore the possibilities for your organization.