out-of-band management controller

[Vu Pham]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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/

Thanks, Lonni. That is what I mentioned as fencing devices ( 
http://sources.redhat.com/cluster/wiki/FAQ/Fencing#fence_what ) . I 
ordered  one from APC.

Vu