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Console Management Servers



On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 10:18:50AM -0400, Daniel Feenberg wrote:
> 
> What is missing from all of these serial console devices is a reset button 
> for the machines being controlled. How much hardware would it take to 
> logically connect one of the many controllable RS-232 wires to the reset 
> pins on the MB? Or interface the WOL cable on the ethernet card to those 
> pins?

If you want capabilities like that, you typically buy a remote
power switch with a serial or ethernet interface. The serial
ones plug into the console server, of course...

-dsr-


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