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Re: rackmount managed PDUs

  • From: Michael Smiley
  • Date: Thu Sep 25 17:01:10 2008

I am a huge fan of the Avocent/Cyclades gear for its integration with the
serial console servers. They do grouping, and alerts over SNMP/SMS/email.
But the big seller for me is the integration.


On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Duane Waddle <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Justin Shore <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Justin M. Streiner wrote:
> >
> > One thing to be aware of with the vertical PDUs is where they get
> mounted.
>
> We've had lots of success with both APC and Baytech units.  A lot of
> the Baytech units ONLY have RS-232.  Ditto on the mounting issues with
> the vertical -- deeper and/or wider cabinets seem to reduce a lot of
> the pain.  On our next buildout we're looking at the Panduit CS1
> cabinets which are both deeper and wider.
>
> --D
>
>


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