RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-16 Thread Jake Vargas
> Check out something like the BayTech RPC3 or RPC41 family? I don't > know if it's exactly what you're looking for, but that's what I just > picked to have per-outlet monitoring and control for a research > datacenter we're building. > >-Dave > We use Servertech's Sentry Switched CDU's for

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Mehmet Akcin
s the > Cyclades. No special cables needed though. > > For power we have been using APC Managed PDU's. These have been > fantastic. No compaints. > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:meh...@akcin.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Smiley
special cables needed though. > > For power we have been using APC Managed PDU's. These have been > fantastic. No compaints. > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:meh...@akcin.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:30 PM > To: na

RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Dylan Ebner
ecial cables needed though. For power we have been using APC Managed PDU's. These have been fantastic. No compaints. -Original Message- From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:meh...@akcin.net] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 9:30 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Managing your network devices v

RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Clay Haynes
Jake Vargas Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Managing your network devices via console jvar...@crypticstudios.com (Jake Vargas) wrote: > > I stumbled across these, which look like decent alternatives to getting > > a 2511 from eBay: http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtm

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread David Andersen
On May 15, 2009, at 4:45 AM, Elmar K. Bins wrote: I am concerned about remote power control, though. If you know your datacenter, you can get all kinds of remote-controlled power strips. With us, we don't always know beforehand what kind of power the DCs will have, and I'd like the exact same eq

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Elmar K. Bins
jvar...@crypticstudios.com (Jake Vargas) wrote: > > I stumbled across these, which look like decent alternatives to getting > > a 2511 from eBay: http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtml > > > > The 48-port 1U terminal server with redundant power looks particularily > > nice. > > > >

RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Jake Vargas
> I stumbled across these, which look like decent alternatives to getting > a 2511 from eBay: http://www.perle.com/products/Terminal-Server.shtml > > The 48-port 1U terminal server with redundant power looks particularily > nice. > > I've no experience with Perle, though. Anyone else? > I use

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-15 Thread Bjørn Mork
Mehmet Akcin writes: > It's always cool to have console access to routers/switches and > nowadays they are going from RS-232 to RJ-45 as a standart. I have got > Avocent DSR 2035 which is a KVM+Serial console (all in one).. but > while I was able to have it work against servers via KVM or/and Ser

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-14 Thread Randy Bush
i'll 'fess up to still using 2511s with 3des image randy

RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-14 Thread Crooks, Sam
s/ ... You may find what you are looking for there. > -Original Message- > From: Tomas L. Byrnes [mailto:t...@byrneit.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 10:00 PM > To: Mehmet Akcin; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RE: Managing your network devices via console > &

Re: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-14 Thread Seth Mattinen
Tomas L. Byrnes wrote: > I've found Avocents to be a nightmare, and the company to be horrible to > deal with. > > They work fine as a local console switch, but they are absurdly > expensive for that use. The rest of their features are byzantine in > implementation and usage, and their support and

RE: Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-14 Thread Tomas L. Byrnes
itant. Old school terminal servers and IPMI/DRAC cards work very well. >-Original Message- >From: Mehmet Akcin [mailto:meh...@akcin.net] >Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 7:30 PM >To: nanog@nanog.org >Subject: Managing your network devices via console > >Hello, > >

Managing your network devices via console

2009-05-14 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Hello, It's always cool to have console access to routers/switches and nowadays they are going from RS-232 to RJ-45 as a standart. I have got Avocent DSR 2035 which is a KVM+Serial console (all in one).. but while I was able to have it work against servers via KVM or/and Serial , I was unable to m