[HH] Internet connectivity watchdog timer

Brough Turner broughturner at gmail.com
Mon Oct 24 16:26:53 EDT 2011


I've bought our most recent units directly from Digital Loggers and they
arrived pretty fast as I recall.  You might call them and ask.

Thanks,
Brough Turner

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On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Tom Metro <tmetro+hhacking at gmail.com>wrote:

> Brough Turner wrote:
> > If your budget extends to $109 or so, there are commercial solutions
> > that would likely meet your need.  We use a Web Power Switch from
> > Digital Loggers Inc. at several sites.  They have an auto-ping feature
> > which can power cycle specific outlets (up to 8 separately addressible
> > outlets) under various conditions.  See:
> >    http://www.digital-loggers.com/autoping.html
>
> That looks like a nice solution, and more flexible than the Trip Lite
> approach, as individual outlets can be controlled, each with their own
> ping target. It also supports startup delays. And it looks like you can
> also opt to run more complex code elsewhere, and communicate with the
> PDU via URLs. Nice.
>
> The price is also more than fair for what it does, but I don't think I
> can get my hands on one in the time frame I have. (I'm currently a bit
> out in the boonies in Eastern Canada until the end of the week. Amazon
> Canada *might* be able to get the Trip Lite UPS to me by the end of the
> week, which doesn't leave much time to get the software working. Doesn't
> look like they carry the Web Power Switch (US Amazon does).)
>
> Thanks for the tip. I might get one of these for my main servers.
>
>  -Tom
>
>
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