{"id":10,"date":"2009-08-08T11:43:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-08T07:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/ramblings\/?p=10"},"modified":"2010-03-13T00:13:04","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T20:13:04","slug":"infratec-pm-8-ip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/08\/infratec-pm-8-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Infratec PM 8-IP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Quick glance<\/strong><br \/>\nA power strip with 8 power outlet sockets and 2 power inlets. Each power port can be turned on or off individually over the network. Support for this product on Infratec&#8217;s website appears poor at best with documentation being equally sketchy. e.g., the firmware revision on my PM 8-IP is 2.02, whereas the latest available download on the website is v1.26a.<br \/>\n<strong>Details<\/strong><br \/>\nOne would be misled into believing that the dual power inlets ensures power redundancy. Unfortunately not, each power inlet can power its own set of 4 power outlets. Hence not entirely useful for critical datacentre operations.<br \/>\nOn the networking front, it runs  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubicom.com\/\">Ubicom&#8217;s<\/a> IP2022 network processor. The network is up and running in about 2 seconds after power up. Pretty impressive. Power to the network processor\/controller is supplied only from one of the power sources.<br \/>\nThe console serial port (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/4P4C\">RJ-9 4P4C<\/a> socket) running at 9600-N-8-1 can be used to configure the IP address and also for performing a factory reset (highly recommended after a firmware up\/downgrade.) The unit can be factory reset by pressing &#8220;F&#8221; (case sensitive) when at the console menu. In some cases the web server becomes in accessible after a firmware upgrade, and a factory reset is required to bring things back in order.<\/p>\n<p>I constructed a console cable from an old RJ-9 jack and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/DE-9_connector#DE-9_connector\">DE9<\/a>-F connector. Use the table below to wire up the two connectors:<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 114px;\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"3\" width=\"306\" frame=\"box\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>PM 8-IP (<\/strong><strong>RJ-9 4P4C) <\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>PC Serial port (<\/strong><strong>DE-9) <\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>1 (GND)<\/td>\n<td>5 (GND)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>2 (TxD)<\/td>\n<td>2 (RxD)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>4 (RxD)<\/td>\n<td>3 (TxD)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick glance A power strip with 8 power outlet sockets and 2 power inlets. Each power port can be turned on or off individually over the network. Support for this product on Infratec&#8217;s website appears poor at best with documentation being equally sketchy. e.g., the firmware revision on my PM 8-IP is 2.02, whereas the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[30,25,26,28,29,27],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jazz","tag-console","tag-infratec","tag-ip-power-switch","tag-ip2022","tag-serial","tag-ubicom"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starprowler.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}