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Best practice for smart PDU auto ping
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Post 1 made on Tuesday August 14, 2018 at 17:25
james_aa
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When you have a smart PDU installed in a rack do you set all the power outlets to autoping and power cycle the device it’s powering or do you enable it only on a case by case basis ?
Post 2 made on Tuesday August 14, 2018 at 18:13
PeterN
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If you don’t control access to the unit this is dangerous.
Case by case.
Properly configured network equipment should never need rebooted.
Cable modem only? Go for it.
Post 3 made on Tuesday August 14, 2018 at 20:55
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Good advice Peter and I concur 100%. It simply should not need auto rebooted as that is typically a band aid hiding bigger issues. Find the issue. Fix that.
Post 4 made on Wednesday August 15, 2018 at 01:38
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I set my WattBox to ping the default, 3 major search engines.
If no response, it power cycles cable modem, router and core switch.
Post 5 made on Wednesday August 15, 2018 at 01:39
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I don't have all outlets reboot on WAN failures.
No reason to reboot amps, controllers, etc. just because Crapcast is out again.
Post 6 made on Wednesday August 15, 2018 at 23:04
fcwilt
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Sometimes the problem is in the firmware of the device.

If no firmware update that fixes the problem is available you either reboot or replace.

I seen more than one device with auto-reboot (optional) as part of the firmware.

Frederick
Regards, Frederick C. Wilt
OP | Post 7 made on Thursday August 16, 2018 at 09:39
james_aa
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On August 15, 2018 at 01:39, Mario said...
I don't have all outlets reboot on WAN failures.
No reason to reboot amps, controllers, etc. just because Crapcast is out again.

Defiantly wouldn't reboot LAN devices on a WAN failure.

Im talking about pining a video matrix to see if it locks up and if it has power cycle it
Post 8 made on Thursday August 16, 2018 at 10:06
cma
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Only things I've run in to that need an occasional reboot are cable company supplied modems and AppleTVs.

Use Motorola Surfboard modems when you can. I have one in my house and have never had to reboot it, when I have had an internet issue it has always been a service outage in my area.

AppleTvs.. no matter how I configure them, static, dhcp, reserved IP from router, go to sleep, don't go to sleep.. they eventually lock up and need a reboot.


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