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Re: rackmount managed PDUs
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:32:25 -0400
On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Paul Stewart wrote:
We have a lot of APC managed power bars (zero U vertical, and 19" 1Urackmount) and they work great. We SNMP manage them and access them via web - they just work, and work well for our needs. Tripplite we've had issues with over time, especially their UPS units (SNMP sucks on them).
I agree with this - we use APCs and the remote access is very useful.Note that 20 Amp and below units use standard 110 Volts and you can just plug them in,
but the 40 Amp units (and I would presume above)require 3 phase 220 volt power, and that generally requires a licensed electrician for installation.
Regards Marshall
Hope this helps a bit.. Take care, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Andrew D Kirch [mailto:trelane () trelane net] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:41 PM Cc: nanog () nanog org Subject: Re: rackmount managed PDUshttp://www.webpowerswitch.com/ I've used these quite a bit. Dependingon the model you can get per port or per zone power management, and it sends alerts if it's not in the state it's supposed to be, and some of them can auto kickover things like routers if they suddenly cant route (might be dangerous, I don't use this one except at the CPE) Andrew Justin M. Streiner wrote:As much as I hate to tear people away from the Intercage/Atrivo debacle and semi-tangential rants, I'll take one for the team and do it :) I have an opportunity coming up to rebuild an existing machine roomspace to an extent. It's not a total gut-and-refit, but I'll at leastget to put in some new infrastructure. That said, I'd be interested in hearing about peoples' experiences with various rackmountable managed PDUs. I have some Tripp Lite PDUMH30NETs that work well and are reasonably priced, but they have a few quirks (no RS-232 console port, web interface seems to be a little shaky with Firefox, etc) that would become more annoying when scaled up to several rows of new rack footprints. I'm also open to using managed vertically mounted PDUs. The plan is for each footprint to have "A" and B" feeds, so two PDUMH30NETs would take up 4U per footprint, which is a bit much... I don't need to worry about distributing DC power - just AC. This site will be lights-out most of the time, so robust remote management capabilities are a must. Any thoughts/insight are greatly appreciated. jms----------------------------------------------------------------------------"The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and contains confidential and/or privileged material. If you received this in error, please contact the sender immediately and then destroy this transmission, including all attachments, without copying, distributing or disclosing same. Thank you."
Current thread:
- rackmount managed PDUs Justin M. Streiner (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Andrew D Kirch (Sep 25)
- RE: rackmount managed PDUs Paul Stewart (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Marshall Eubanks (Sep 25)
- RE: rackmount managed PDUs Paul Stewart (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Matt Kelly (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Nuno Vieira - nfsi telecom (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Justin Shore (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Justin M. Streiner (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Duane Waddle (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Michael Smiley (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Kelly Kane (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Joe Greco (Sep 25)
- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Adam Rothschild (Sep 25)
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- Re: rackmount managed PDUs Andrew D Kirch (Sep 25)