[ale] Running a hands off remote Linux installation

[Dennis Ruzeski]

I've always used a drac/ilo for this- They're a great solution if your
systems support it since they will allow you to recover from the stray
kernel panic or non-responsive ssh or to remotely patch your bios.

--Dennis



On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Matthew <simontek at gmail.com> wrote:
> a PDU with power rebooter is what you need.
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Erik Mathis <erik at mathists.com> wrote:
>>
>> You need something like this.
>> http://www.rackmountsolutions.net/Infra-Power-Switched-Rack-PDU.php
>>
>> Stay away from the Triplite ones. APC has really good ones, but costs
>> boat loads of money.
>>
>> I've never used the one pasted above, but I was already on that
>> website loking for something else. What ever you get, you will want a
>> SWITCHED strip verse a metered or monitored. The former only allows
>> you to login and see how the power is being used. Switched allows you
>> to turn on/off each port.
>>
>> Of course, your network gear needs to come online be for you do this.
>>
>> hth!
>>
>> -Erik-
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Jim Lynch
>> <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
>> > I want to set up a hands off system at a remote location.  I'll put a
>> > large UPS to keep it running through short power outages but I'm
>> > concerned about longer outages.  While I obviously want it to be
>> > available most of the time, if the power goes out for hours, it won't be
>> > available and I can live with that.  I can sense the failure and do an
>> > orderly shutdown before the UPS batteries go completely flat.
>> >
>> > However I'm stumped on how to get the system to turn itself back on
>> > after the power comes back.  I know I can set the bios to boot on power
>> > up automatically but that would require the computer to power off
>> > externally I would guess and that's not an orderly shutdown besides with
>> > the UPS in line, I don't really have a way to sense when the mains
>> > actually come back.
>> >
>> > I've thought about putting a small controller, like a Arduino, somewhere
>> > with a relay to momentarily key the switch leads in the computer when I
>> > sense all is back to normal, but I'm thinking there might be a better
>> > way.
>> >
>> > Any ideas?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Jim.
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