Per outlet -> New or used ipoman 1201 (12 metered outlets) In total -> Used APC (though they may only have 8 outlets in a 1U setup)
APC will have per-outlet metered as well but not in the price range for a home lab I think...
There may be others, but I obviously don't know / haven't used all available PDUs :-)
On 03/25/2014 09:29 AM, Laurens Vets wrote:
What do you want to do with it?
Monitor the power usage of my home lab :) approx. 10 outlets should do it.
On 20/03/2014 22:11, Laurens Vets wrote:
Tom,
What's a good PDU for a homelab?
On 2014-03-20 16:51, Tom Laermans wrote:
My personal experiences with PDUs:
- APC: excellent hardware, probably 99% of things supported by
Observium
- Ingrasys IPOman: nice idea (per outlet metering), firmware crashes
regularly (probably only when exposed on the internet)
- Riello PDUs: rugged hardware, but SNMP bugs...
We support some other hardware as well:
- GUDE PDUs: Nice hardware, no personal experience, but I recently
coded support for them (www.gude.info [3])
- Geist PDUs: Looks like VERY nice hardware, lots of measuring and
sensor options, no personal experience, but I recently coded support for them (www.geistglobal.com [4])
- Raritan PDUs: Probably nice hardware, possibly expensive,
Observium poller code could maybe do with some improvement but will work fine
Personally I'm a fan of APC, but they're not cheap. If you end up going for something else, we could always add support for it through sponsored development or a patch; of course it would mean their SNMP stack should be up to snuff :-)
Tom
On 03/20/2014 04:12 PM, Kaya Saman wrote:
Many thanks Mike and Adam for the responses and recommendations!
Regards,
Kaya
On 03/20/2014 07:02 AM, Mike Stupalov wrote:
Hi,
APC is the best choice.
We use many PDUs from APC (AP7920, AP7951, AP7952, AP8858, AP8959). All this (and other) PDUs fully supported by Observium and our team ;)
On 20.03.2014 03:51, Kaya Saman wrote:
> Hi, > > I've been using Observium for a few months now and really enjoy it! > > I currently have a fully managed/switched PDU which has been > under RMA > for what feels like forever and the best advice the manufacturer > could > give me was to return the unit back to my reseller?? > > I'm not quite sure what's going to happen with it yet so I just > wanted > to know what the best or most compatible PDU is for *NIX > systems?? I'm > running Observium on FreeBSD 10 64bit. > > Basically the current PDU I have keeps bombing out under SNMP > queries > as snmpwalking the device either comes up with "snmp timed out" or > totally the wrong protocol?? It's supposed to support v1 and v3 but > the MIB response I get is for v2c? > > I know that Observium supports APC and two others as per listed > on the > Support page on the site. > > Which one is the most NIX friendly? > > Having read the documentation for the APC models, they can be > updated > over FTP or SCP which is perfect unlike my current model which > needs > an M$ exe program and since my network is OpenSource only OS > wise it's > basically an issue..... > > It seems to be a bad SNMP stack in my opinion as I've never had any > issues using SNMP previously with many different vendors for > network > and peripheral devices. Observium even goes as far as graphing > my HP > print servers Toner values which is soo cool :-) > > Can anyone give me any advice? > > -- I was actually looking at this model: > http://www.apc.com/products/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=AP7... > [1] > > as a replacement. > > Many thanks. > > Kaya > _______________________________________________ > observium mailing list > observium@observium.org > http://postman.memetic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/observium [2]
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