Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 23:50:02 -0500 From: User Al Johnson <Al.Johnson@AJC.State.Net> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remotely power cycle a machine...? Message-ID: <3431D67A.F1DD44FE@AJC.State.Net> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96.971001005242.220A-100000@thelab.hub.org>
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Here in the States, I'd run to Radio Shack and pick up a $30 box
that conects to a phone line. You plug up to 4 devices into it.
Call the phone number dial #1 to turn off power to the device in plug
one, dial *1 to turn power back on. I used to use this to support
a Novell (ick) Netware Access Server) that blew up quite often.
-- Al
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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