Here is my contribution to the PDU/UPS list, Eaton has long been in this business http://www.powerware.com/UPS/Products.asp#large -henry ----- Original Message ---- From: Paul Stewart <pstewart@nexicomgroup.net> To: Andrew D Kirch <trelane@trelane.net> Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 9:45:53 AM Subject: RE: rackmount managed PDUs We have a lot of APC managed power bars (zero U vertical, and 19" 1U rackmount) and they work great.  We SNMP manage them and access them via web - they just work, and work well for our needs.  Tripplite we've had issues with over time, especially their UPS units (SNMP sucks on them). Hope this helps a bit.. Take care, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Andrew D Kirch [mailto:trelane@trelane.net] Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 12:41 PM Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: rackmount managed PDUs http://www.webpowerswitch.com/  I've used these quite a bit.  Depending on the model you can get per port or per zone power management, and it sends alerts if it's not in the state it's supposed to be, and some of them can auto kickover things like routers if they suddenly cant route (might be dangerous, I don't use this one except at the CPE) Andrew 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

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