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Sounds like this business would be much better off running in the cloud.

The Cisco WS-C2960PD-8TT-L is an 8-port 10/100 and 1-port 10/100/1000 POE uplink port that it can be powered from.  We have a bunch of these in conference rooms for AV equipment.  They can be had for under $50 at most on eBay and probably other sites now since they are End-of-Sale/End-of-Life by Cisco.

Santa brought the family a Brother MFC-L2685DW  multi function laser printer for Christmas,  installing the drivers on my PC now.

I bought the Brother MFC-L3770CDW after a 14 year old HP inkjet scanner/printer died on us unexpectedly.  It has been life changing having dual side printing and copying and a having document scanner.  I wish I would have purchased something like this years ago.

What about something in the Ubiquiti line?  I have a friend that runs a computer business and he raves about them.

800-35052-01 DOES NOT FIT Cisco UCS c220 M5
- the tray is slightly too wide
- the latch mechanism is not in the right place to secure the tray.

I've been unable to locate M5 trays / caddies online to purchase. I do not have any official M5 HDD to remove the HDD and locate the part no. from the tray. If anyone sees this and doesnt mind sharing the info - I'd be most grateful

Could you 3D print it?

Does anyone here know if you can run NetBox on a Raspberry Pi?  I didn't want to host something on the Internet on a VPS or something and I don't want to ask my Platforms and Storage guys for something that isn't officially supported in our organization?  I was thinking of loading NetBox on my Raspberry Pi 4 with 4GB RAM and trying it out before I go down that road with official requests at the office.  We have InfoBlox as our IPAM but I would really like a good freeware DCIM.

I can remember when a Radio Shack employee sold my parents our first real computer (Tandy 1000 TL/2).  It came with a 40MB hard drive and he said it would be more than anyone would ever need combined with the dual 3.5" 720K floppy drives.  HAHA

You might need something that does line conditioning as well as provides UPS functions.  The industry has a lot of names for it.  Buck and Boost and AVR are the two that come to mind.  We had Transition Networks transceivers in a steel manufacturing site with lots of large motors and such.  We had one area that was near these motors and they had a UPS for these transceivers but we would still lose the link.  We found out the UPS that was in place didn't provide voltage at like 100-109V that the line would drop down to when the motors would kick on.  At 110V and up it would work fine.  In that case, the plant electricians installed a Sola (brand?) line conditioner for that area of the plant and it cause our problems to go away. 

As we moved forward, we started purchasing APC UPS'es with voltage regulation and you could tell it if the voltage drops to that 100-109V go on UPS and provide power until the line returns to a normal threshold.  I would definitely look into your equipment specs, but it sounds exactly like what I have dealt with in the past.

I can say I haven't seen a 100Mb transceiver in about 10 years or more since I got out of the industrial side of a steel company.  Have you thought about using a switch with GBIC/SFP to convert from the fiber over the RJ45 on an L2 and just stretch it to where you need it over trunks?

Automation nuked their own hosts!

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/03/cisco_webex_outage_script/

"Are you available to work this Sunday's outage?"  Eye twitching!

Jobs are like relationships, sometimes they don't work out and you don't see that sometimes until you are in the relationship.  We wouldn't be having this conversation though if the company wanted to cut numbers and let them go after five months.  I guarantee they wouldn't offer this person any kind of severance for five months of employment.  What if they had turned down other offers not knowing they would be laid off in five months?  No recourse for the employee either.  No one talks about employer when they behave in this manner, it is just business.  It is time businesses realize they made this bed and now it is time to sleep in it.  You can't have your cake and eat it too.

I know far too many people that have worked in places since 2008 looking for better jobs without any increases or promotions.  Now that times have gotten better and they are jumping ship, the companies are all butthurt that they can't fill positions.  Um, you didn't give your employee standard living increases for years and now you are upset they left?  Sorry not sorry.

Have you looked at Men & Mice?  This was one we looked at for IPAM (we went with Infoblox) but they offer DNS and DHCP support as well.

https://www.menandmice.com/

No, we looked at it at Cisco Live 2016 and talked to them afterwards and did a Webex demo but never pulled the trigger on a POC or anything with them.  It was a cool product, but just didn't fit our environment at the time and likely nor our budget.

Appropriate power for your UPS and PDU combo as well as another circuit for just a PDU (1/2 on house power and 1/2 on UPS power).
Appropriate cooling/(de)humidification facilities?  Return air for the hot exhaust?  Unit covered under maintenance and what is the facilities response time if AC unit goes out?
Enough room add racks and work in them comfortably?
Storage space?