Raritan has several that allow you to monitor individual ports. I had a demo of their units the other day. Some very interesting things they have. For example, if you have a server with two power supplies you can plug each power supply into a PDU, and then in the management software you gang them together, so you push one button to power off the server. Plus you can tie them into their IP KVMs. Very interesting.
I'm not sure on pricing though, we didn't get into that as of yet. Drew. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeremy Frank Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 6:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [lopsa-tech] PDU Per-Outlet Power Monitoring? Hello, We are thinking about purchasing a bunch of fancy PDUs as part of a migration to all 208v power at our data center. In addition to monitoring how much power the entire PDU is using, we are also interested in watching per-outlet power usage. The theory is that we will have Cacti graph the power usage of each outlet over time. Using this data, we can maximize the usage of each circuit without overloading it and spot spikes/trends before they become major issues. So far, the only PDU we have found that has this feature is the Avocent PM3000 (http://www.avocent.com/PM2000_PM3000.aspx). Does anyone have any comments on the PM3000, or know of any other PDUs on the market with the per-outlet power monitoring feature? Thanks, Jeremy This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
