you can has AP9211/9606
I’ve long been a fan of of the discontinued APC AP9211 distribution unit. To wit:
- It’s an efficient 1U, taking up just enough space for the 8 outlets.
- It is gloriously devoid of any moving parts, including noisy fans.
- powerman comes with scripts to manage its outlets from the command line over ethernet. Once you get used to the convenience of “powerman -c $host” you never go back.
- It’s common enough to easily be found on ebay.
That last point brings us to this post. Mark got a pair for his machines after I showed him the light. He got them from an auction that has 3 days left and, at the time of this writing, 19 units left. Each has a pretty reasonable price for immediate purchase with shipping.
APC MasterSwitch AP9211 w/ AP9606 Control Module — ebay auction 230196539398
It’s a chance for poor kernel developers out there to stop being frustrated by having to lose time rebooting boxes in person.
Colin wrote:
We use a bunch of AP7953 for the test lab here at work… They work great too: developers can reboot their panicked test machines easily.
At first we tried to use IPMI, but that didn’t work as well as it should for a lot of machines.
I didn’t knew about Powerman… so I wrote an interface (GTK systray GUI -> http to the server -> expect script on the server -> APC). I’ll look into it! :)
Posted on 29-Nov-07 at 11:22 pm | Permalink
Yenya wrote:
Newer APC models are OK as well, we use many ranging from AP9210 to AP7920 here. The newer models have more powerful firmware (including, for example, SSH).
Posted on 30-Nov-07 at 6:23 am | Permalink