[ale] Remote hard reboot?

[Chris Fowler]

You could use a serial console management device.  This will allow you to obtain console access via the network or via modem.  We happen to sell such a device.  16, 32, 48, or 64 ports in 3U's.  You then can compile serial-5.05 driver into your linux kernel and send break command that will allow you to restart the unit and a few other features.  You can also use a port of our unit to control a power management device that you can use to issue a hard power cycle to the APC unit.

We have many people doing this. How many units do you need to control?


-----Original Message-----
From: djinn [mailto:djinn at djinnspace.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 5:01 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: [ale] Remote hard reboot?



Greetings!  I was wondering if any of you were using any hardware that
allows you to reboot your linux servers if your network cards refuse to
speak to the world?  We've investigated RealWeasel, which sounds
wonderful, but it appears to be ISA only.  We've also investigated APC's
PowerChute, just to give an idea of the type of hardware we're looking
for.




Any help is, as always, appreciated.


Jenn
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