From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 30 21:47:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA15935 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:47:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cplkagan.globaleyes.net ([209.60.64.59]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA15925 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 21:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parrothd.globaleys.net (parrothd [192.0.0.29]) by cplkagan.globaleyes.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA22294; Tue, 30 Sep 1997 19:49:48 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19970930234254.006e6564@midwest.net> X-Sender: parrothd@midwest.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Demo Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:42:54 -0500 To: The Hermit Hacker , questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Jonathan E. Lyons" Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...? In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > > > ..-.. ..-.. Jonathan E. Lyons __ /-___-\ __ __ / \ __ parrothd@midwest.net (__\/___ ___\/__) (__\//-oO--\\/__) 87 VFR700FII | \__|__/ | (/ _---_ \) Southern Illinois University ( ___ ) \/__|__\/ School of Ag. LAN Admin. ( / \ ) | [VFR] | http://cplkagan.globaleyes.net/ \ |.-.| / \ .---.{O) \ || || / \|///|| | '\| |/' |\|\|{_} | | |///|// '_' |///| '---'