Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-24 Thread Bob Purdon
So what did we do. I used to use a relay type system in 2007-10 in my previous data centre life. It¹s pretty good but a bit ³industrial². It¹s also so 2007 (even 1990) and doesn¹t scale well when you are trying to do 3,000 racks and 6,000 doors per facility. Part of the scaling issue was the door l

Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-23 Thread Mike Poublon
Our datacenter build used RCI rack locks/handles and over the last year of production since going live haven't had any issues. http://www.rutherfordcontrols.com/en/products/electric-locks/3525/ We used the non-RFID model and put a standard card reader at the end of every row. Our A

Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-21 Thread bzs
On November 20, 2015 at 21:06 jab...@hopcount.ca (Joe Abley) wrote: > On Nov 20, 2015, at 20:55, Jimmy Hess wrote: > > > You're not going to be able to look at a log and see Joe opened it at > > 2:45AM > > 12 months ago, and ever since then, the servers are not quite right. > > And I

Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-21 Thread Joe Hamelin
http://www.netbotz.ca/rackbotz.htm Just make sure you put one on both the front and back. Otherwise one could just open the back and unplug the Ethernet cable. -- Joe Hamelin, W7COM, Tulalip, WA, +1 (360) 474-7474 On Fri, Nov 20, 2015 at 6:06 PM, Joe Abley wrote: > On Nov 20, 2015, at 20:55,

Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-20 Thread Bevan Slattery
ey system (RKS), Keyvault, or Realtor lockboxes on >each server rack ^_^ > >Physical locks on cabinets.Key vault that supports multiple >combinations. >Then you don't need exotic hardware, just a good lock, and sound key >control >procedures. > >I am imagin

Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-20 Thread Joe Abley
On Nov 20, 2015, at 20:55, Jimmy Hess wrote: > You're not going to be able to look at a log and see Joe opened it at 2:45AM > 12 months ago, and ever since then, the servers are not quite right. And I would have got away with it to, if it wasn't for you kids and your pesky logs. Joe

Re: Rack Locks

2015-11-20 Thread Jimmy Hess
Physical locks on cabinets.Key vault that supports multiple combinations. Then you don't need exotic hardware, just a good lock, and sound key control procedures. I am imaging if you need to automate control of individual keys; that there will be more competing solutions for this than spec

Rack Locks

2015-11-20 Thread Kevin Burke
What kind of experience do people have with rack access control systems (electronic locks)? Anything I should pay attention to with the products? Hope this questions hasn't already been answered. Not to picky about what/who. The APC solution seems to start getting pricy with multiple racks. I