[AusNOG] Power issues - Equinix SY3

[Thomas Jackson]

If you're running any Dell gear, DRAC can measure the PSU input voltage - and is available through SNMP. I'd suspect that other vendors have similar functionality. If you're running metered PDUs, it is likely that you can get similar data from them too.

A datalogging multimeter is probably more accurate, but I'd start with the above if it's available.

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From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Wolfgang Nagele
Sent: Monday, 10 February 2014 2:50 PM
To: AusNOG
Subject: [AusNOG] Power issues - Equinix SY3
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Hi,

We’ve had equipment failures at SY3 over the course of the last year at an unusually high rate. We use the same equipment in other data centers and have failure rates nowhere close to the ones we have up there. Anybody else having such issues? Temperature and Humidity levels all look good but we suspect power to be a potential issue there. Any ideas how to narrow this down - any electricians that have good equipment to perform measurements (probably over the course of days)?

Thanks,
Wolfgang