[108256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: rackmount managed PDUs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelly Kane)
Thu Sep 25 18:34:17 2008
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:33:30 -0700
From: "Kelly Kane" <kelly@hawknetworks.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <80e7195b0809251040we535233q95ae9fc09815ea9b@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Duane Waddle <duane.waddle@gmail.com> wrote:
> We've had lots of success with both APC and Baytech units. A lot of
> the Baytech units ONLY have RS-232.
I would like to register a strong vote against APC units. They are
quite fragile in our experience, to the point of 20% DOA on their 0U
managed units. Either the management console wouldn't work, or the
relays were stuck in one position (on or off). Real pain in the neck.
Their RS-232 port is RJ11 as well.
Baytech's however provide pretty much everything we want, and are
cheaper plus more reliable to boot! We only have experience with their
RS-232 models, but the interface is easily scripted, customizable
alarm threshold, and come out of the box ready to go. Our biggest
issue with them so far is a batch of them came in with the threshold
set to 12A instead of 16A.
Kelly
