X86 motherboards that let you send a break to them like a Sun?
Got a question for all you admins out there... If any of you have used Sun hardware you know that if a machine becomes unresponsive and you have it on a terminal server connected to your serial port you can send a break to the machine and reboot it. I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a couple years now. And I guess the question is " Does anyone know if an X86 motherboard that will let you do this remotely?". We are switching our frontend machines (web, proxy, mail and other such things) off Solaris to SuSE most likely and we need something like this. I personally don't want to drive 30+ miles to reboot a machine. Any hints or opinions would be helpful. Thanks. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
I have seen ads in LinuxJournal showing a power strip that can attached to remotely and then send a signal to power cycle one of the outlets. I haven't tried one but it sounds like what you are looking for. Ken On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:01, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Got a question for all you admins out there...
If any of you have used Sun hardware you know that if a machine becomes unresponsive and you have it on a terminal server connected to your serial port you can send a break to the machine and reboot it. I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a couple years now. And I guess the question is " Does anyone know if an X86 motherboard that will let you do this remotely?". We are switching our frontend machines (web, proxy, mail and other such things) off Solaris to SuSE most likely and we need something like this. I personally don't want to drive 30+ miles to reboot a machine.
Any hints or opinions would be helpful.
Thanks. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
if you go that route you will have to make sure that you change the setting in the bios to make sure the machine will come back up when power is restored. Newer motherboards in the atx based ones will not power back up unless the bios has a setting to let you do that. when the power is cut to one you have to also hit the power button to turn it back on, but some motherboard have the setting in the bios to come back up when power returns. just thought I would drop that hint. jack malone horizon industries network administrator At 03:12 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, Ken Schneider wrote:
I have seen ads in LinuxJournal showing a power strip that can attached to remotely and then send a signal to power cycle one of the outlets. I haven't tried one but it sounds like what you are looking for.
Ken
On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:01, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Got a question for all you admins out there...
If any of you have used Sun hardware you know that if a machine becomes unresponsive and you have it on a terminal server connected to your serial port you can send a break to the machine and reboot it. I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a couple years now. And I guess the question is " Does anyone know if an X86 motherboard that will let you do this remotely?". We are switching our frontend machines (web, proxy, mail and other such things) off Solaris to SuSE most likely and we need something like this. I personally don't want to drive 30+ miles to reboot a machine.
Any hints or opinions would be helpful.
Thanks. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
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Yeah. I've seen this type of thing. I was hoping that the X86 crowd had actually made a mb with a bios that could do this. Thanks. * Ken Schneider (kschneider@rtsx.com) [030207 12:13]: ->I have seen ads in LinuxJournal showing a power strip that can attached ->to remotely and then send a signal to power cycle one of the outlets. I ->haven't tried one but it sounds like what you are looking for. -> ->Ken -> ->On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:01, Ben Rosenberg wrote: ->> Got a question for all you admins out there... ->> ->> If any of you have used Sun hardware you know that if a machine becomes ->> unresponsive and you have it on a terminal server connected to your ->> serial port you can send a break to the machine and reboot it. I've been ->> out of the PC hardware arena for a couple years now. And I guess the ->> question is " Does anyone know if an X86 motherboard that will let you ->> do this remotely?". We are switching our frontend machines (web, proxy, ->> mail and other such things) off Solaris to SuSE most likely and we need ->> something like this. I personally don't want to drive 30+ miles to ->> reboot a machine. ->> ->> Any hints or opinions would be helpful. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I'll tell you what you should see.
Ben Rosenberg wrote: On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 15:01, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Got a question for all you admins out there...
If any of you have used Sun hardware you know that if a machine becomes unresponsive and you have it on a terminal server connected to your serial port you can send a break to the machine and reboot it. I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a couple years now. And I guess the question is " Does anyone know if an X86 motherboard that will let you do this remotely?". We are switching our frontend machines (web, proxy, mail and other such things) off Solaris to SuSE most likely and we need something like this. I personally don't want to drive 30+ miles to reboot a machine.
Any hints or opinions would be helpful.
Take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt It may be able to do what you require. Regards, Paul
Ben Rosenberg
If any of you have used Sun hardware you know that if a machine becomes unresponsive and you have it on a terminal server connected to your serial port you can send a break to the machine and reboot it. I've been out of the PC hardware arena for a couple years now. And I guess the question is " Does anyone know if an X86 motherboard that will let you do this remotely?".
"PC Weasel" can do it, see http://www.realweasel.com/intro.html -- Alexandr.Malusek@imv.liu.se
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