Racks and PDUs - how to?
Frank Mogaddedi
Hi,
I’d like to help our facilities team to ever-so-slowly migrate from their rack/power/tenant spreadsheet over to Netbox, but I ran into a snag.
They run one (or more) power cables from our large PDUs straight to the rack and note on their spreadsheet which PDU/port-in-pdu/connector type/amps runs into said rack. I don’t know how to best replicate that in Netbox. A rack isn’t a device with power ports in Netbox. We lease the racks to our customers and we don’t track their equipment, so I can’t really assign power ports to their devices.
Of course I could add the description in the rack’s description field, but that feels a little weird – I’m not sure I could properly search for “all racks off PDU-7”
How do you handle that – if at all. It’s also quite possible that I’m not understanding the power representation in Netbox and that I’m missing something glaringly obvious.
Frank
Jacob Mansfield
If you create a device for each rack called "Power to tenant" or similar, you could put a power input on it, and then enter the cables from each PDU to the tenant device.
Netbox doesn't currently track connector types or ampage for power connections (though both have been suggested, see #54 and #792) but you could put this in the comments.
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Frank Mogaddedi
D’oh! Thanks!
Also: You’re right – power mapping is more complicated than the engineer’s spreadsheet suggested. I just got a primer on “three phase, how many phases to which rack, which phases, etc.”
No, I don’t think I’d want that in Netbox – now I try to go back in time to not hit “send”…
And for simple stuff, your suggestion would work.
Frank
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Power mapping in Netbox doesn't seem brilliant, but I think it will work for you.
If you create a device for each rack called "Power to tenant" or similar, you could put a power input on it, and then enter the cables from each PDU to the tenant device.
Netbox doesn't currently track connector types or ampage for power connections (though both have been suggested, see #54 and #792) but you could put this in the comments.
On 9 February 2018 at 12:18, Frank Mogaddedi <Frank.M...@nscom.com> wrote:
Hi,
I’d like to help our facilities team to ever-so-slowly migrate from their rack/power/tenant spreadsheet over to Netbox, but I ran into a snag.
They run one (or more) power cables from our large PDUs straight to the rack and note on their spreadsheet which PDU/port-in-pdu/connector type/amps runs into said rack. I don’t know how to best replicate that in Netbox. A rack isn’t a device with power ports in Netbox. We lease the racks to our customers and we don’t track their equipment, so I can’t really assign power ports to their devices.
Of course I could add the description in the rack’s description field, but that feels a little weird – I’m not sure I could properly search for “all racks off PDU-7”
How do you handle that – if at all. It’s also quite possible that I’m not understanding the power representation in Netbox and that I’m missing something glaringly obvious.
Frank
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