[ale] Running a hands off remote Linux installation

[Michael H. Warfield]

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 11:37 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
> You can do it with a low cost solution: IPMI. The system must have
> IPMI built in (most server class boards do) and you need two network
> connections and the appropriate drivers for the IPMI in the server
> itself. From that, as long as there is power at all, you can log into
> the IPMI controller (which is inside the system) and tell the system
> to power up or down. If there is no power at all, then the ipmi is
> offline.

Yeah, that got me thinking to playing around with it some.  Been meaning
to do that for a while.  Those Dell PowerEdge 2850 servers I've got (we
were talking about using on of them for the ALE server) have it as well
as a couple of the machines in the lab.  Those Dells are relatively old.
But the Dell Optiplex towers I have - for-get-it.  My Tatung 1U servers
- no joy.  :-P

Mike

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Jim Lynch
> <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:
> > On 07/31/2012 10:30 AM, simontek at gmail.com wrote:
> >> Who shuts off a server? Get a server with amt or pmi built in. Allows you to log in, and turn on a machine that is turned off
> > The scenario is that the computer senses the power is gone and does an
> > orderly shutdown before the UPS battery dies.  That's why it's shut off.
> >
> > I guess I'm not going to do it since all the solutions so far include
> > spending big bucks.  I had hoped I could just use a spare system I have
> > sitting around.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jim.
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