automate power reset

[Chris Mohler]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Evuraan::ഏവൂരാന്‍ <evuraan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am sure most of us have faced this -  I've a bunch of machines (with
>> broken ACPI?) - they run away and go to sleep at times.
>> hangcheck_timer etc. does not help. my bios has no ASR either - I now
>> need to figure out a poor man's way to power reset if they
>> (icmp/service) fail.
>>
>> yea i know, there are fancy pdu's with ssh/telnet/snmp access which
>> can do this. but $$ is hard -
>
> I think you want the impossible (to quote Luke Skywalker :-)
>
> If it won't respond to the network and it's sleeping, then the OS level is out.
> If it doesn't have a separate management interface or ASR the BIOS can't do it.
> If you can't control the power cord remotely then a hard reset it out.
>
> What's left? Carrier pigeons trained to peck the right buttons, or
> minions with cell phones and keys to the server room :-)

Robots!  Or does X10 make a "switch-flipper"?

Chris