[83272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: power strip with individually monitorable outlet current
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Leber)
Tue Aug 9 19:37:36 2005
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 16:37:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Leber <mleber@he.net>
To: Justin Kreger <jkreger@lwolenczak.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508071439250.8536@earthling.lwolenczak.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Justin Kreger wrote:
> At the now defunct redundant.com we used baytech strips with the ds-3
> (not the circuit) modules to snmp enable the strips. We were able to
> control each port, and monitor load on each port.
>
> http://www.baytech.net/
I had moderate success with this suggestion. Their technical support said
the only product they had that does this is the 4 outlet RPC5 or RPC6
(ethernet version vs serial version). Unfortunately, it costs $644 each
(lowest price I've found so far) and accomplishes it's individual
monitoring by replicating power in and power out plus an ethernet port 4
times. Still, if it's the only one out there I guess they win (although
at $150 per outlet, ouch, that goes over my $4000 budget for this).
http://www.baytech.net/products/prodlist.php?show=RPC5
Mike.
>
> -Justin
>
> On Sun, 7 Aug 2005,
> Mike Leber wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > There have been suggestions of good SNMP monitorable power strips here
> > before, however I'm looking for a power strip with individually
> > monitorable outlet current (via SNMP).
> >
> > I've searched google for quite a while and can't seem to separate out such
> > a beast from all the remote power management strips that just monitor
> > aggregate usage.
> >
> > I have an application where I need to record the variation in power
> > consumption for individual devices over time. I need to monitor about 30
> > devices in 4 cabinets (8 devices per cabinet or so) in and have a budget
> > of $4000. I'd like to be able to see current in milliamps or 10 milliamp
> > increments. I'm looking for an off the shelf device.
> >
> > If anybody can help me I'd certainly appreciate it.
> >
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