What is it?

TLDR;

The physical manifestation of sndwrks.

The server sits at the center of your show. It allows all departments to connect their networks to it without having to tie the networks together.

Ports

The server has three types of ports: power, network ports, and peripherals.

Power

If you have a server, it has two power supplies for redundancy. Either power supply can power the server on its own though we recommend you always use both. The server smol has one psu.

Tip

We recommend you run one power supply on regular power and on a UPS (uninterruptible power supply). This configuration keeps you covered if you lose power or the UPS fails. The server smol should be powered via UPS.

Network

The server has either 8x 2.5G network ports (server) or 2x 1G network ports. Port 8 or Port 2 (server/smol) have permanent link local addresses set at 169.254.1.1. On both server and smol, network connections can be a single network or a trunk with multiple VLANs.

Peripherals

The only peripheral that exists is a future expansion for GPIO on the server. We have plans for some other bits, but if there’s a connection you want that we don’t have let us know!