WTI – Western Telematic Inc.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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