There are commercially-available watchdog timers and heartbeat monitors available. I unfortunately don't have a recommendation, as I've never needed them.
Something like this, assuming you can get Linux software for the heartbeat... http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56100&item=5787506905&rd=1 If I were doing it for a home / non-commercial setting, I'd probably just build something with a Basic Stamp to monitor the serial tty, and look for the panic message and / or a heartbeat message sent to the tty. It'd be easy to have the Basic Stamp open / close a contact to cause a relay closure attached to the reset button. Ryan On Tue, July 12, 2005 8:27 am, jeff said: > Does anyone know of any good hardware for rebooting systems? > > We have some servers in FL. Some of them kernel panics. I am fairly > certain that it is the dialogic (telephony) drivers causing it. I need > to be able to reboot the systems from here. I am going to add serial > ttys to each so I can get the panic messages. My manager is getting > evil ideas, like putting windows on them. > > > -- > Jeff > > "...this wrong tool. Never use this." -- Zathras > .===================================. > | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | > | Don't Fear the Penguin. | > | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | > `===================================' > .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
