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Monitoring UPS Performance using Slack, SNMP, and Datadog
Recently, a APC Symmetra LX 100Amp UPS was donated to Computer Science House by the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, a college at RIT. Taken from the their decommissioned datacenter, we transported the unit to our server room and began planning for the required construction necessary for the installation of a 100 Amp line. Up to this point our infrastructure was powered by three 120V 3-Phase lines. …
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Harold
The Backstory Before we get into the circuitry and coding behind HAROLD, I’d like to provide just a bit of background. The best starting point I can think of is April of 2014, accepted students open house day at RIT. It was that day I got my first tour of CSH (Computer Science House) and decided I wanted in. As I got my tour I was told of the projects members had completed and were currently working on: Drink, Multi Touch, Custom Arcade Cabinets, and Harold. …