Netbox Power

An often overlooked, but critical topic when it comes to network and server environments is tracking and regulating device power. Oftentimes, engineers just assume “power is there” - simply plugging the device in and hoping all goes well. However, if you don’t track and regulate your device power, you could land yourself in a complete outage of all rack devices by overprovisioning PDU or circuit breakers! If you haven’t already, we highly recommend watching the video and joining Jeremy in a data center environment to walk through power connections.
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[@vairo-]

Thank you Jeremy! these videos are great!! keep'em coming 😀

[@seandean8293]

Great video. Are you able to add the net box videos to a playlist?

[@ThePsprout]

I think the 800W showing up on your feed is the 800W you allocated for the PDU power port not the 200W used by the switch. By allocating power draw to a PDU I think you're saying the PDU itself is drawing power rather than distributing power. If you don't leave the allocation on the PDU blank you won't see the switch that's drawing power through the PDU reflected in the feed utilization. Just my understanding, I could be wrong. Thanks for the videos, they got me started on NetBox.

[@achraffriha3700]

I think you are absolutely right! Since the PDU is seen as a device, like for example a switch, storage, server, etc... the power drawn from the PDU's Power Port needs to be left blank. The only thing you need to do is to make a connection between the PDU's power port and the Power Feed. It's in the power feed that we set the power provided to the rack.

[@thomasbonse]

12:35 the most common outlet in the US is not NEMA 1-15R, it's NEMA 5-15R, which is the grounded version.

[@bas1858]

too bad one still can not model a ups - pdu - device in netbox and read the total power usage of the ups.
thats a quite common scenario in smaller (branch) deployments...

[@Phelikhan]

I have the same dificulty. I have UPSs that go into 4 port PDUs and than it branches to other "ruler" that can have 7 to 14 power outlets (some racks have 4 of those) and then to devices. Since we also need to manage the UPS loads to avoid power outtage do to over load on them having what bas1858 described would be a win.

[@itsbobbyagain]

Great video, thanks for the explanation. Do you enter the power information for each device under “allocated draw” to get the real world values?

[@AdarshHarisree]

How can I add a vertical PDU

[@udirt]

usually they're called zero U PDUs, you best add it as an unracked device.

[@GhiocGeorge]

the link for the full netbox course doesn't work.

[@fengyihu6082]

非常的哇塞

[@mankaner]

I feel like you would be able to sell me anything!