[150267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: WW: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Mon Feb 20 14:20:25 2012
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 14:19:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
In-Reply-To: <201202201701.q1KH1RpB012750@aurora.sol.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Joe Greco wrote:
> I must admit that our planning and preparedness is designed around a
> multi-level strategy to avoid having to go on-site to a site nearly a
> thousand miles away, so we've probably instrumented things a bit more
> heavily than many networks, but when the cost difference between IPMI-
> capable gear and standard gear is a handful of dollars, I guess I am
> a bit mystified that anyone would want to "drive 100+ miles to a
> remote colo" twice a month for a task that it sounds like KVMoIP or
> IPMI might be able to tackle.
Technically, only one of the trips was to play doctor on the remote
server...the second was to upgrade/replace other gear in the POP, but I
figured as long as I'm there, it'd really suck to be there and not have a
head for the server if I need it...so it went with me. On the second
trip, the monitor (this time a 20" because the 17" I'd taken last time had
died in the interval between the trips...or maybe as a result of its car
trip) never left the car.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Jon Lewis, MCP :) | I route
Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are
Atlantic Net |
_________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
