Remotely (re)starting my system via a smart power switch?

[Bo Berglund]

On Sat, 02 Jul 2022 11:19:06 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:

UPDATE:
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>On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 00:10:06 +0200, Bo Berglund <bo.berglund at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>Now back from the trip home and I can report that the real problem was *not*
>overheating as I suspected (that has happened before).
>Instead one of my 8-way NetGear Gigabit switches had given up so I had to rush
>out and buy a replacement (TP-Link 8X Gigabit this time).
>
>Then the missing computers came on line again...
>
>But while I was there I checked the WOL setting in the laptop BIOS and it turns
>out it is enabled already (but not named WOL of course).
>So if an overheat shutdown happens in the future I will try the WOL trick.
>

Today one of my 2 laptops running Ubuntu suddenly shut down (I had a PuTTY
session up and PuTTY gave an alarm sound when it lost connection).

So now I could test the etherwake command to restart the laptop:

IT WORKED!

Took a bit longer than a normal reboot before it was on line but after a couple
of minutes it was running again and responding to PuTTY!

Thanks for suggesting this solution!


-- 
Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden