out-of-band management controller

[vu pham]

Vu Pham wrote:
> Does it exist such that thing for normal PCs ?
> 
> I have to do some remote tests to systems that I have to reboot them 
> repeatedly. The systems I am using now are Dell servers with DRAC and 
> Sun servers with ALOM. These systems take long time to reboot because of 
> all of the BIOS on the controllers; while PCs can take just 20-30 
> seconds. If there are some similar DRAC/ALOM controller for PC that 
> would help me to save a lot of time for these remote tests.
> 
I found several of them, called KVM over IP but I cannot  find the one 
that can allow me to power the system on/off. I can use some fencing 
device to power off a remote PC, but cannot power it on :(

Vu