[108224] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rackmount managed PDUs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Kelly)
Thu Sep 25 12:44:42 2008
From: Matt Kelly <mjkelly@gmail.com>
To: Justin M. Streiner <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0809251117010.9452@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:41:31 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
APC makes "0U" units for different types of electric hand offs.
AP7932 is a unit we've used with great success in the past. APC's
SNMP access is great as well since it can be integrated with just
about any kind of system.
--Matt
On Sep 25, 2008, at 12:37 PM, 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 room
> space to an extent. It's not a total gut-and-refit, but I'll at
> least get 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
>
