Henry Vail 写道: > Hello, > > I am challenged with nearly 100 proprietary servers that I need to remotely > power control in a netboot environment. The goal is to have these servers > in a powered-off (or minimally powered) state when not actively in use, and > automate power-on to network boot into a workload OS on demand. These > servers are directly powered in a way that I cannot mechanically control. > They are equipped with Intel 82757 LOM NICs, but unfortunately do not have > BIOS support for Wake-on-LAN (and because they are LOM, I cannot update them > with the Intel Boot Agent). They do appear to support ACPI, so I hope there > is a way to leverage this to simulate a WoL capability. > > My thoughts are to place the server into an idle state by network-booting a > very lightweight OS (DSL, NDSL, PuppyLinux, etc) then suspending it into ACPI > S3 or S4 to minimize power draw. On demand, we would need to "wake up" the > server just enough to force it to reboot -- at which point it would be > automated to network boot into a different OS to support the workload > required, so full recovery from these states may not be necessary. > > Is anyone here aware of any existing work along these lines, have any > suggestions, or can offer other alternatives? > > thank you! > Henry > Why not trying to use Node Manager to do that ?
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