Measuring and Controlling Power to Sun Blade 6000 Servers
Remote Power Reboot for Sun Blade 6000
Controlling and managing power to remote devices such as the Sun Blade 6000 used to be a major headache for System Administrators everywhere.
Once upon a time, administrators who needed to reboot or power down a remote network device often had no choice but to travel to a far-away installation site and manually flip a switch; spending a good portion of their day to accomplish a simple task that could probably be have been performed by an on-site, trained monkey. That all changed in the late 1990s when WTI introduced our first remote power control products.
Today, there are many different products on the market that allow remote power control, but WTI’s MPC-HD is one of the few switched PDUs that can both deliver and switch high amp power. MPC-HD Series Switched PDUs are designed to provide secure, remote, high amp power management, allowing power switching and reboot from anywhere on Earth; even when in-band access is unavailable or impractical.
And the MPC-HD does more than just control power and reboot functions; it can also meter energy use by your Sun Blade 6000 and report findings in text or graph format; a very valuable tool for those who need to track power use and energy costs. Advanced power metering capabilities allow the MPC-HD to measure and report Kilowatt Hours, Kilowatts, Amps, Voltage and Temperature. When any of these factors exceed threshold values, the MPC-HD can switch or reboot power and promptly send notification.
