Need 'remote power bar' recommendations ...

[Mark Johnston]

"Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy at hub.org> wrote:
> I'm looking at something like:
>
>  	http://www.wti.com/nbb16.htm
>
> to put where my servers are co-located, so taht I can power cycle as
> required ... does anyone here have experiences with either WTI, or other
> similar products that they'd like to share?

We have 3 of WTI's NPS-115 8-port power switches in 3 remote locations, and 
we've been very happy with them.  I've never tried the Web interface that the 
one you list above seems to have, but we use the Telnet interface on our WTIs 
to great success, using a small Python script to auto-reboot a couple of 
pieces of flaky equipment.

I have no complaints about the WTI units, but you do have to bear in mind that 
they'll allow only one Telnet connection at a time - if you drop the 
connection unexpectedly, you won't be able to get back in until it times out.  
I've only had one instance of trouble: one of the units, sitting on a 
broadcast-laden network, started dumping garbage packets onto the wire.  It 
looked almost like a jabbering NIC, but disconnecting and reconnecting the 
Ethernet cable got it working again.  For the 6-8 total unit running years 
across the 3 units, the one problem is a pretty good record, IMO.

HTH,
Mark