WTI - Western Telematic Inc.
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; [...]
This is for all the Network Engineers, Network Managers, Data Center Managers whom might read this. Scenairo: Your at home enjoying a nice weekend or its midnight and your fast asleep. Suddenly, you receive an email or call that a Switch, Firewall, or Server is either hosed or down. The network device needs to be accessed and or rebooted now! In the past you [...]
Its the end of the year and we got our requests at work to order desktop paper calendars and I go into my end of year rant.
In this day in age who would need a paper calendar ? There are so many choices to get your calendar from where ever you are electronically, I find [...]
My daughters birthday was last month. One of the gifts she wanted was the Speed Racer DVD (yea, I dont know why either). I went to the video store to buy it and on the cover was a tag that says “Get a Digital download”. Great I thought, I dont have to rip the DVD, [...]
We have all looked in amazment at our electricity bills lately and wondered what can I do to lower this cost and perhaps even lower my carbon foot print. The power companies billing calculations are based on a kilowatthour useage. Below is a useful link to see average cost of kWr per region in the US.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/table5_6_a.html
The WTI Managed Power Controller [...]
One of the more common questions is how to get the status of our Remote Rebooters and Console Boxes. Your questions are about to be answered.
First you will need a few things, to make things easier I am using Linux (Yea, I know that sounds like an oxymoron), you will need the Net-SNMP programs for [...]
2006-09-26 CIO Insight
Cars and trucks have long been the most visible symbol of America’s insatiable thirst for energy. But data centers—those sprawling computing centers that cram thousands of energy-hungry servers into air-conditioned rooms—though less visible, are starting to take their toll as well.
As most CIOs know, data centers are wildly expensive and require gobs of [...]
For those of you who wonder what our MPC unit looks like from the inside out.
I saw this on the workbench in the office next door and I thought it looked pretty cool. It is really four MPC units tied together and talking to each other for easier administrator. They are connected via a high [...]
I mentioned before that we have an MPC (Managed Power Controller, a PDU to the rest of us) sitting out there on the Internet (mpc.wti.com). We leave the protocols that should REALLY be closed when running in a real world environment open (i.e. Telnet, web, SNMPV1/V2) to see what kind of attacks that we can [...]
If you are one of the few growing numbers that are running Windows Vista and you are confused by the dizzying array of choices they offer for that Operating System. Here is a way to extend the Activation Keys up to 120 day, from the normal 30 days.
Here’s how to re-arm the Windows Vista product [...]