On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Sluggers,
>
> This is kinda off-topic but....
>
> I'd like to be able to remotely shutdown / reboot a PC from a Linux
> server (there see it's back on topic now:) but without necessarily
> having to know what OS it's running or to log-on to it. I've checked out
> wake-on-lan and etherwake.c
> which is ok if the box is powered off and kinda the sort of solution I'm
> looking for. This gives me an automagic power-up
> of all PC's in a classroom type senario, but what about an automagic
> power-down / reboot?
Basically either you want the motherboards with on-board ethernet and
'RAS' (Remote Access Server) capability (some high end servers from
Dell/Compaq/IBM have this) or there are network cards that have this
capability. Basically the card gets an extra IP address which you login to
(never tried, probably varies, don't know if linux client available) and
access the local console OR at least a special bios console of some kind.
Or for about $700 there's a card that will give you full bios & console
access through the serial port - you could bodgy up a modem directly to
it, or plug it into the serial port of another machine & run minicom or
something like that. I think it's called something like 'PC weasel', we
got one for a demo but decided it was too expensive. They have the coolest
manual included though, very humourous.
EG the front cover has a penguin with it's head cut off and the caption is
something about running a headless server.
"This page also left intentionally blank"
"This page accidentally left blank"
If you never buy this product it's worth at least reading the manual :-)
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