RE: Power/temperature monitoring
We have had great luck, with Ravica Bitsight: http://ravica.com/products/index.php We use the smallest model, the Bitsight2, we have it at a solar site, monitoring the voltage of a 12v battery bank (which also powers the unit), along with 2 microwave radios and a 12v switch. It works great for this, and they many other sensor types, but it is a bit pricey. It has a nice web gui and users snmp and other forms of notification, and has built in graphing. We used email messages with alerts when certain voltage levels were reached. -Kyle -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 5/30/2008 10:58 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Power/temperature monitoring Hopefully monitoring the status of a network is on-topic. I'm looking for temperature and power monitoring unit to install in some remote BWA cabinets. We had two incidents where we lost power in a town and we weren't aware of it until the backup batter drained to empty, and another situation where the cabinet became too cold. Because these cabinets are less than 19 wide and just 3-5 deep, I need something quite small. I did find one product but it requires four components (unit with built-in temperature sensor, adapter, and AC power sensor, plus power supply) Perhaps there's someone on this list who has gone down this road and can point me to a good product. Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and Optional: - fed via 12 VDC power - 12 VDC power monitoring (current) - humidity sensor Frank
RE: Power/temperature monitoring
Thanks. The TemPager doesn't appear to support identifying AC power failure, but that's in the Room Alert 7. The price point and features do seem reasonable. Frank From: Josh Fiske [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Power/temperature monitoring Frank, We have had good luck with a device called TemPager (http://tempager.com/). Our specific device is used for SNMP temperature monitoring, but they also make a device that includes the ability to humidity, power, flood, room entry, etc. etc. Hope that is helpful, Josh - - - - Joshua Fiske '03, '04 Network and Security Engineer Clarkson University, Office of Information Technology (315) 268-6722 -- Fax: (315) 268-6570 GPG Key: http://clarkson.edu/~jfiske/jfiske_pub.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 5/30/2008 10:58 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Power/temperature monitoring Hopefully monitoring the status of a network is on-topic. I'm looking for temperature and power monitoring unit to install in some remote BWA cabinets. We had two incidents where we lost power in a town and we weren't aware of it until the backup batter drained to empty, and another situation where the cabinet became too cold. Because these cabinets are less than 19 wide and just 3-5 deep, I need something quite small. I did find one product but it requires four components (unit with built-in temperature sensor, adapter, and AC power sensor, plus power supply) Perhaps there's someone on this list who has gone down this road and can point me to a good product. Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and Optional: - fed via 12 VDC power - 12 VDC power monitoring (current) - humidity sensor Frank
RE: Power/temperature monitoring
This is basically the AKCP product, repackaged. =) Frank -Original Message- From: Kyle Duren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 9:31 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Power/temperature monitoring We have had great luck, with Ravica Bitsight: http://ravica.com/products/index.php We use the smallest model, the Bitsight2, we have it at a solar site, monitoring the voltage of a 12v battery bank (which also powers the unit), along with 2 microwave radios and a 12v switch. It works great for this, and they many other sensor types, but it is a bit pricey. It has a nice web gui and users snmp and other forms of notification, and has built in graphing. We used email messages with alerts when certain voltage levels were reached. -Kyle -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 5/30/2008 10:58 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Power/temperature monitoring Hopefully monitoring the status of a network is on-topic. I'm looking for temperature and power monitoring unit to install in some remote BWA cabinets. We had two incidents where we lost power in a town and we weren't aware of it until the backup batter drained to empty, and another situation where the cabinet became too cold. Because these cabinets are less than 19 wide and just 3-5 deep, I need something quite small. I did find one product but it requires four components (unit with built-in temperature sensor, adapter, and AC power sensor, plus power supply) Perhaps there's someone on this list who has gone down this road and can point me to a good product. Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and Optional: - fed via 12 VDC power - 12 VDC power monitoring (current) - humidity sensor Frank
RE: Power/temperature monitoring
Frank, We have had good luck with a device called TemPager (http://tempager.com/). Our specific device is used for SNMP temperature monitoring, but they also make a device that includes the ability to humidity, power, flood, room entry, etc. etc. Hope that is helpful, Josh - - - - Joshua Fiske '03, '04 Network and Security Engineer Clarkson University, Office of Information Technology (315) 268-6722 -- Fax: (315) 268-6570 GPG Key: http://clarkson.edu/~jfiske/jfiske_pub.asc [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information, and unauthorized disclosure or use is prohibited. If you received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender and delete this e-mail from your system. -Original Message- From: Frank Bulk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 5/30/2008 10:58 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Power/temperature monitoring Hopefully monitoring the status of a network is on-topic. I'm looking for temperature and power monitoring unit to install in some remote BWA cabinets. We had two incidents where we lost power in a town and we weren't aware of it until the backup batter drained to empty, and another situation where the cabinet became too cold. Because these cabinets are less than 19 wide and just 3-5 deep, I need something quite small. I did find one product but it requires four components (unit with built-in temperature sensor, adapter, and AC power sensor, plus power supply) Perhaps there's someone on this list who has gone down this road and can point me to a good product. Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and Optional: - fed via 12 VDC power - 12 VDC power monitoring (current) - humidity sensor Frank
Re: Power/temperature monitoring
http://akcp.com/company/sensorProbe8.htm Everything you need. Jeremy On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 09:58 -0500, Frank Bulk wrote: Hopefully monitoring the status of a network is on-topic. I'm looking for temperature and power monitoring unit to install in some remote BWA cabinets. We had two incidents where we lost power in a town and we weren't aware of it until the backup batter drained to empty, and another situation where the cabinet became too cold. Because these cabinets are less than 19 wide and just 3-5 deep, I need something quite small. I did find one product but it requires four components (unit with built-in temperature sensor, adapter, and AC power sensor, plus power supply) Perhaps there's someone on this list who has gone down this road and can point me to a good product. Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and Optional: - fed via 12 VDC power - 12 VDC power monitoring (current) - humidity sensor Frank
Re: Power/temperature monitoring
At 10:58 AM 5/30/2008, Frank Bulk wrote: Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and We have been using Uptime Devices. Our units have room for 3 sensors (we have 2 temp and one for humidity). Web, SNMP, ethernet, external AC power blob. Its a fairly small form factor and it has been reliable for us over the years. Alerts work as expected and havent had any false positives either over the years. ---Mike
Re: Power/temperature monitoring
We used an Uptime Device and it didn't work out too well. We switched to an AKCP SensorProbe8-60 http://www.akcp.com/company/sensorProbe8X60.htm which has worked out better. We need a lot of dry contacts to monitor our alarm relays (Cisco ONS15454, Taqua T7000, Liebert HVACs, Generator, Fire Suppression, etc, etc...) On May 30, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 10:58 AM 5/30/2008, Frank Bulk wrote: Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and We have been using Uptime Devices. Our units have room for 3 sensors (we have 2 temp and one for humidity). Web, SNMP, ethernet, external AC power blob. Its a fairly small form factor and it has been reliable for us over the years. Alerts work as expected and havent had any false positives either over the years. ---Mike
Re: Power/temperature monitoring
We've got a couple of the (beta test) mini goose climate monitors installed. Takes up less space than the big APC boxes we've been using. http://www.itwatchdogs.com/ --Chris
RE: Power/temperature monitoring
Do you know if they have a AC power probe? Frank -Original Message- From: Alex Rubenstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 10:28 AM To: Mike Tancsa; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org Subject: RE: Power/temperature monitoring We've started using ControlByWeb, specifically http://www.controlbyweb.com/temperature/index.html .. POE, and handles four probes. We just don't use their probes, we buy them elsewhere (it's plain old one wire). -Original Message- From: Mike Tancsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 11:11 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Power/temperature monitoring At 10:58 AM 5/30/2008, Frank Bulk wrote: Required: - temperature sensor - 110 VAC power monitoring (on/off, not necessarily current) - Ethernet interface (at least SNMP, Web GUI and We have been using Uptime Devices. Our units have room for 3 sensors (we have 2 temp and one for humidity). Web, SNMP, ethernet, external AC power blob. Its a fairly small form factor and it has been reliable for us over the years. Alerts work as expected and havent had any false positives either over the years. ---Mike
RE: Power/temperature monitoring
I agree with Chris -- we also have been using the ITWatchDogs products for years, and both the products and company have been wonderful to work with. Tony Patti CIO S. Walter Packaging Corp. -Original Message- From: Chris Boyd Sent: 5/30/2008 11:40 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Power/temperature monitoring We've got a couple of the (beta test) mini goose climate monitors installed. Takes up less space than the big APC boxes we've been using. http://www.itwatchdogs.com/ --Chris
