[lug] remote management hardware?

[Chuck Morrison]

Hi Calvin,

If you need to reboot (hard) the server, then something like the APC
remotely controlled (rack mount) power strips should do it. They
aren't real cheap, but they do the job and you can control them via
scripts which is nice. You should be able to control multiple servers
from one strip, depending on how many power supplies they have.

ILO will do the trick if you don't mind going into a web page to reset
the box. The remote console on iLO is nice to see what state the box
might be in before you reset it and the logs you get there can point
to memory issues and other things that might take a while to diagnose
otherwise. I'm not familiar with anyone other than HP doing iLO, but I
haven't looked either.

Chuck Morrison

On Sat, Apr 9, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com> wrote:
> An upcoming move means I will no longer be able to show up onsite to
> deal with OS failures, so I'm trying to research remote management
> hardware, preferably of the sort which can be added or attached to an
> existing server, rather than the sort which is built in to the
> motherboard.
>
> Do any of you have any recommendations about these sorts of devices?
> Or should I take advantage of one server's recently-demonstrated
> flakiness, and buy a motherboard with ILO (or something similar) built
> in?
>
> Calvin Dodge
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