Okay for clarity... a mechanical solution to pushing the buttons on the NUC is of Rube Goldberg complexity. It is completely unnecessary and hellaciously prone to failure.
You can literally wire into where the on / off switch is... or optimally directly to the jumper on the board itself with a microcontroller ( i'd use a beaglebone black personally for the ethernet port mainly ) . Then you can use a GPIO pin to switch the board on and off. More so, you can wire the GPIO ( at 5v ) to a mechanical relay in line with the 110/220v+ line and get hard cycling added as a capability. Using mindstorms for this is neat, but frankly way overly complex and less useful. Hell if you were crazy you could wire up a usb hub to some ttyusb -> db9 cables and host it to the beaglebone as well for serial console. Go still further down the path to damned near implementing your own IPMI solution you could directly parasite into the on board sensors and read them direct. Going the final leg of the journey... you could directly ADC the VGA port and soft render that into a RDP window along with some sort of API -> USB HID device stack... and bob's your uncle you've built your own LOM board. Then all you need to do is re-implement IPMI protocol and tie it to the hardware. Half way to an open source LOM board at that point. But honestly, with AMT that's not really necessary here. Still... open source LOM would be nice. -matt On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Abel Lopez <[email protected]> wrote: > There is DIY LOM for the NUC, it was demo'd at Paris Summit. It was quite > elegant, featuring LEGO Mindstorm robots being instructed to push the power > button. > > On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) <[email protected]> wrote: > > So as to 10g, it’s not like I’m going to use them for production :) > > I do miss LOM on the boxes tho – the dual interface would be nice, but I > can work around that. > I have a covey (pod? Gaggle?) of 4 NUCs with 1 being the master to deploy > the others. That master has 2 nics (built in 1g, wifi) so you can very > easily connect your cloud to your network. > > This allows my developers to test real multinode deploys of openstack > repeatedly without the expense of 3 rack servers, and they can carry around > the cloud to meetups or whereever they want to go. > > There are a few tweaks to what we’re doing that are based on feedback > from what we’ve built already. I use the NUCs as the price point is good, > and Intel is down the street from me :) > > Shameless plug: more details in our talk at the vancouver if it gets > accepted. > > --Will Snow > [email protected] > Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering > Mobile: +1-650-544-5460 > > From: matt > Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM > To: will snow > Cc: Christian Berendt, "[email protected]" > Subject: Re: [Openstack-operators] demo environment ( embedded device > openstack ) ? > > 3) no 10 gig. > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:29 AM, matt <[email protected]> wrote: > >> i dislike 2 things about the NUCs... >> >> 1) only a single interface >> 2) no lights out management >> >> =/ >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:06 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Yes, I was considering waiting for the new NUCs but they’re March >>> (scheduled) which means general availability sometime after that. >>> Which would make things a bit tight for my talk at Vancouver (if it gets >>> accepted) >>> >>> --Will Snow >>> [email protected] >>> Director, OpenStack Customer Engineering >>> Mobile: +1-650-544-5460 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 2/11/15, 3:33 AM, "Christian Berendt" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >On 02/06/2015 10:27 PM, Will Snow (wasnow) wrote: >>> >> I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been >>> >> quite happy with them – reasonable performance, 16g ram, and usb3 if >>> you >>> >> need storage. >>> > >>> >I think NUCs are a greate choice. >>> > >>> >According to >>> > >>> http://liliputing.com/2015/01/intel-unveils-nuc-mini-pc-core-i7-broadwell >>> . >>> >html >>> >NUCs with i7 CPUs should be released this year. >>> > >>> >More details at >>> >http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/nuc/products-overview.html. >>> > >>> >Christian. >>> > >>> >_______________________________________________ >>> >OpenStack-operators mailing list >>> >[email protected] >>> >http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >>> _______________________________________________ >>> OpenStack-operators mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > >
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