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RE: PDU recommendations


From: shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2013 16:27:00 -0400

Thanks, I think the amount of love for the APC stuff confirmed my
experience. I'll look at the Raritan PDUs as I like their KVMs but if I
have to use their software or a WebUI to manage it (I use AddleLink for
remote to the KVM because I don't like proprietary management) I won't use
their PDU.

AFAIK (I'll obviously confirm), the circuit is 208VAC and the plug is the
dual phase NMEA type.
On Jun 23, 2013 3:41 PM, "Petter Bruland" <Petter.Bruland () allegiantair com>
wrote:

We're replacing TrippLite with APC. Had two TrippLite SNMP/Web cards stop
working at random times, and need to be reset. Pain when the datacenter is
far away. On a different note TrippLite support has been super awesome.

The APC line we went with, model # escaping me at the moment, only had
overall unit AMP load indicator. But their SNMP access is nice, for custom
graphs in Cacti etc, and being able to remote bounce an outlet.

We did have a few WTI, the really old ones, which did not store the config
in flash, thus needed to be reconfigured via serial after power outage.
Even with that annoyance, they had much faster response time from telnet
(....I know, old) turning on/off outlets than either of APC or TrippLite.

-Petter

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From: tritran () cox net [tritran () cox net]
Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2013 12:05 PM
To: shawn wilson; North American Network Operators Group
Subject: Re: PDU recommendations

APC is solid. Their newer line can provide outlet metering. WTI is also
good...they support redundant circuits. I've seen Baytech died after just
unplugging a server.
------Original Message------
From: shawn wilson
To: North American Network Operators Group
Subject: PDU recommendations
Sent: Jun 23, 2013 8:37 AM

We currently use Triplite stuff but they've got an issue where after a few
minutes, they stop accepting new tcp connections. We're adding a new 30A
circuit and I'm thinking of going with APC (ran them in the past and never
had any issues). However, I figured I'd see if there was a better brand /
specific model recommendations for quality or bang / buck?

Specs: 30A 24+ port 0U, managed (with ssh), lcd use display.





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