[plug] remote control of a server

Wed Nov 14 02:03:10 WST 2001

On Tue, Nov 13, 2001 at 09:19:42PM +0800, Alan Graham wrote:
> On Rs/6000's, I can configure the bios to use ttyS0 as the console.  On an
> SP/2, the control workstation can control the power supply, and display
> status codes from the boot sequence.  It can also communicate through an
> internal e/net interface to any of the nodes, in single user mode.

Power switches (APC call them master switches) are available that can be
controlled remotely. If you plug your linux box into that (and whatever else 
you want) then you can remotely power cycle them say if it crashes for some
reason.

Later,

Jason Nicholls
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