At act 314, a cooling-performance assessment is determined based on a temperature assessment determined at act 308 and, in some examples, a capture-index assessment determined at act 312. In examples in which a cooling-performance assessment is determined based only on a temperature assessment (for example, where the process 300 continues from act 310 directly to act 314 [310 NO]), the cooling-performance assessment may be set equal to the temperature assessment. For example, for a unit of IT equipment having a “bad” temperature assessment, the cooling-performance assessment may be determined at act 314 to be “bad.”