out-of-band management controller

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 8:12 AM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> 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 :(

I don't know what a "fencing device" is, but we use products from
Server Technology at $DAYJOB for remote power mgmt:
http://servertech.com/



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