WTI – Western Telematic Inc.
Has this ever happened to you? You pay good money for a brand new network device and wait patiently for it to be delivered, but then when you take it out of the box and hook it up, it turns out that it’s D.O.A. due to some undetected manufacturing defect. That by itself can be [...]
How do you remotely reboot a device connected to a WTI PDU without your laptop? Use your Smartphone! You didn’t know you could do that ?That’s ok neither did anyone else. We just released a new version of firmware across the product lines that substantially enhances the smart phone experience with a low bandwidth version [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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