Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:42:54 -0500 From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" <parrothd@midwest.net> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...? Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19970930234254.006e6564@midwest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971001005242.220A-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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I believe APC has something, but I need to think if it was them or not(I
can check), but it was a battery back-up system that also had dail-up
capablities, for remote power cycles. We, had planned on using them for our
remote dail-in POP sites, to cycle our modem banks. unfortunatley they were
kinda pricey, but then again $50 was pricey at this place.. :)
Or you could throw an old 486,Intellegent APC backup(or whatever), and use
their software to cycle the power backup ( plug the other cpu into apc :) )?
At 12:57 AM 10/1/97 -0300, The Hermit Hacker wrote:
>
>Hi...
>
> I'm having problems with one of my remote machines running
>2.2.2-RELEASE that seems to "feel" like a SCSI bus problem. There isn't much
>I can do about it, since the machine is 2500 kilometers, and 3 provinces
>away :( So, right now, she is down, and will be for the next 10hrs or
>so...very bad for business :(
>
> Does anyone know of any way of doing a remote power cycle of a machine?
>
> Mainly, what I was thinking, was the ability to throw on some sort of
>device that I can either telnet to (we have a Sparc20 on location, so maybe
>a device hanging off a serial port from that?) or dialup into on the phone,
>that I can force the machine to reboot itself? Or maybe "terminate" the
>power and turn it back on again?
>
>Marc G. Fournier
>Systems Administrator @ hub.org
>primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary:
scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
>
>
>
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