IMO you'd rather be able to remotely cycle the power than not, but yeah
I'd say my biggest complaints on that front are:
1) Normally open. So controller or software failure == everything off.
I'm looking at digital loggers on that one.
2) Technicians learning to rely on it. "Oh that AP is down again,
better reboot it. Ok there I fixed it." Repeat every week without ever
fixing the underlying problem.
On 3/11/2020 6:12 PM, Nate Burke wrote:
I used to do that, back in the day. Then I had the problem where the
PDUs Started failing and turning everything off more than the PDUs
were helping me by letting me power cycle things. Or the Failure was
something like the router, so the PDU couldn't be accessed anyway.
On 3/11/2020 5:04 PM, Darren Shea wrote:
We are putting remote PDUs at all sites as a general precaution –
there’s too many devices which can fail/crash, requiring a truck
roll, that end up getting fixed by a power cycle. It doesn’t take too
many disruptions like that to realize the value of a remote reboot
with ping watchdog option.
*From:*AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com] *On Behalf Of *Colin Stanners
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:09 PM
*To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group
*Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups
If you see enough problems that you're putting in a a remote PDU -
replace the router before putting in the PDU unless absolutely
nothing else than the RB4011 will work.
On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, 4:31 PM Darren Shea <darr...@ecpi.com
<mailto:darr...@ecpi.com>> wrote:
I only have one RB4011 in the field, but it seems to have a
problem a couple
times a year. I now have it on a remote PDU which can power-cycle
it when it
stops responding to pings, but if they come out with a f/w fix
for this
problem, I'd be very interested!
-----Original Message-----
From: AF [mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com
<mailto:af-boun...@af.afmug.com>] On Behalf Of Nate Burke
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2020 11:24 AM
To: Animal Farm
Subject: [AFMUG] RB4011 Lockups
This week I've had 2 RB4011 Routers lockup requiring a power
cycle. They
were still passing some traffic, but stopped doing things like
handing
out DHCP, or responding to SNMP. And you couldn't log into them via
Winbox or MACNeighbor.
One was on ROS6.44.3, the other on ROS6.45. Both of them were doing
NAT, whereas most of my Mikrotiks are only routing. Both of these
locations have multiple RB4011s, and only the one doing NAT
locked up.
Nothing is recorded in the log other than the reboot. These were
both
routers that have been installed for months. One router lockup I
can
attribute to a fluke, but 2 in the same week is worrysome. Has
any one
else noticed anything?
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