[ale] Running a hands off remote Linux installation

[Jim Kinney]

You can do it with a low cost solution: IPMI. The system must have
IPMI built in (most server class boards do) and you need two network
connections and the appropriate drivers for the IPMI in the server
itself. From that, as long as there is power at all, you can log into
the IPMI controller (which is inside the system) and tell the system
to power up or down. If there is no power at all, then the ipmi is
offline.


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Jim Lynch
<ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> On 07/31/2012 10:30 AM, simontek at gmail.com wrote:
>> Who shuts off a server? Get a server with amt or pmi built in. Allows you to log in, and turn on a machine that is turned off
> The scenario is that the computer senses the power is gone and does an
> orderly shutdown before the UPS battery dies.  That's why it's shut off.
>
> I guess I'm not going to do it since all the solutions so far include
> spending big bucks.  I had hoped I could just use a spare system I have
> sitting around.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim.
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