On June 15, 2008 12:45:07 pm Steve Totaro wrote: > If a PDU is just a power strip then this has many more bells and > whistles. My usage is being able to control power to those outlets to > reboot or turn on/off equipment if it is hung or whatever other > reason. > > Thanks, > Steve T >
Yep, a PDU is really just a broad term for anything that takes power input and distributes it to many devices - so yes a power strip/bar would be classified as a PDU...technically. However I'd probably expect to get laughed at if I called a power bar a PDU! There are pretty big differences between the $5 power bar you can buy at walmart and stuff that people typically put into server cabinets. technically this device specifically would be a "Switched PDU" the switched part meaning it has the ability to turn on/off individual ports. The interface to turning those ports on/off however is irrelavent to its device classification.... it could be a web interface like this device, a telnet/ssh interface, it might not even have any remote capability and just have physically switches for each port. -- Matt Watson http://www.mattgwatson.ca _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
