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All servers and routers will lock up and cease to function sometimes; even top quality equipment like Cisco routers and switches. Have you ever been woken up in the middle of night by a call from work, and then had to drive all the way to your office just to unlock or reboot an uncooperative [...]
When a piece of LAN/WAN, telecom, or other control equipment has “locked-up” and is no longer responding to normal methods of communication, it is often necessary to perform a cold boot of the equipment. After the power has been cycled on and off, normal communications via the network can resume. This is often difficult when [...]
SNMP based control and monitoring of remote network devices is a valuable tool for almost any network administrator. WTI’s Serial Console Servers and Switched PDUs provide full MIB support, allowing you to review status, change configuration parameters, edit user privileges and control operating functions at remote units via SNMP commands.
Remote network management products can be a wonderful thing … as long as they’re working properly when you need them! WTI takes great care to ensure that every product that leaves our facility has been intelligently designed, expertly manufactured and thoroughly tested, but even top-of-the-line equipment can eventually fail or need service some time. When [...]
Utilizing an out-of-band serial console server for connection and control of multiple Linux/UNIX RS-232 console ports located in your data center can be a cost-effective and convenient tool. As the majority of Linux/UNIX servers are equipped with a serial console port or ‘out-of-band’ serial terminal port, the connection to these ports when server density is [...]
It’s midnight, it’s raining and you need quick, secure communication with a piece of remote network equipment that’s malfunctioned. No problem, right? All you need to do is fire up your SSH client and you’re ready to communicate with the unruly server or router … but what if you can’t establish an in-band connection, and [...]
It’s been a while since my last post. One of our Engineers has basically made the WTI Blog his own with interesting, entertaining, and mind feeding topics. All great posts by the way so if you have the chance read them. Anyway, I’m back. So lets talk about Data Centers, Power Consumption, Metered Switched Rack PDUs , and this great company WTI There’s a [...]
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