[114582] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Managing your network devices via console
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Andersen)
Fri May 15 09:51:45 2009
From: David Andersen <dga@cs.cmu.edu>
To: "Elmar K. Bins" <elmi@4ever.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090515084459.GP29526@ronin.4ever.de>
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 09:51:31 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On May 15, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Elmar K. Bins wrote:
> I am concerned about remote power control, though. If you know your
> datacenter, you can get all kinds of remote-controlled power strips.
>
> With us, we don't always know beforehand what kind of power the DCs
> will have, and I'd like the exact same equipment everywhere (except
> the cables, of course).
>
> In order to achieve this, I used Cyclades (now Avocent) ATP3120-001
> (20A@100-240V input on IEC C320-20, 10A outputs on IEC C320-13).
>
> They have three shortcomings:
> - sometimes they forget their configuration (not critical)
> - they can only be accessed by serial console (no SNMP etc.)
> - consequently there's no power meter remote readout
>
> Is anyone here aware of such universally usable devices that can
> be accessed over IP and give power readouts remotely?
>
> Electrical specs are as above - 20 Amps input (for 120V countries),
> usable anywhere from 100-240 Volts and IEC input and output plugs...
>
> Any hints?
> (No, APC fails in the 100-240V part)
> (No, Perle fails in the 100-240V and the IEC part)
> (No, even Avocent's other strips fail there...)
Check out something like the BayTech RPC3 or RPC41 family? I don't
know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but that's what I just
picked to have per-outlet monitoring and control for a research
datacenter we're building.
-Dave
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