[AusNOG] Power audit

[Alastair Waddell]

Thanks everyone for ideas. 

The thing about DCs is they are the antithesis of 'agile'. I mean, in your right hand you have Amazon AWS and IaaS where new features come monthly and prices go down to encourage adoption and then in your left hand, you have the DC where you're captive to the interconnects you have in place, if not also to kit and prices just go up while features don't exist. 

On that basis, I'm tossing overboard as much kit as I can jettison and looking for like-minded sub-let tenant prospects who need a few RU for switches and could use our interconnects to a number of carriers. They will get a PDU as recommended but I'm sticking with my monthly manual email request for usage reporting until I muster the courage for downtime. 

I'll put my ad in ausnog-classifieds. 

Regards, 
Alastair 

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From: "Peter Tiggerdine" <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> 
To: "Alastair Waddell" <awaddell at legion.com.au> 
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net 
Sent: Tuesday, 4 June, 2013 7:32:23 PM 
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Power audit 



Three ways todo this safely 
Apc switched power distribution unit (pdu) would give you a very indication of power use. For $1k each it probably cheaper that getting in contractors and provide remote power switch to your noc. We use them everywhere. 
If your kit is in a commerical dc, the owner if the dc should be able to give you and indication 
Pull all the datasheets from all the kit and add it up the power calculation. 
You can use a hall effect sensor but requires you to strip open the 32amp lead to get access to the active wire. Not oh&s friendly 
On Jun 4, 2013 7:15 PM, "Alastair Waddell" < awaddell at legion.com.au > wrote: 



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