Whack-On-Lan

[jabr-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (John Abreau)]

Lantronix has a single-machine KVM-over-IP widget, the SecureLinx Spider,
that would let you reboot with Ctrl-Alt-Del. I believe they run about $500.

http://www.lantronix.com/it-management/kvm-over-ip/securelinx-spider.html

When Ctrl-Alt-Del isn't enough, another option is a remote-access
power switch..
A fairly cheap one-outlet unit is tne CPS N-AC1, at $189.

http://www.bomara.com/cps/n-ac1.htm



On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Christopher Rutter
<christopherrutter-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> All this talk of Wake-On-Lan has brought up a longtime question I've had
> about remote reset via lan (a.k.a. Whack-On-Lan). ?The issue is I am the
> administrator for an Ubuntu server that is 1,098 miles away (via car Boston
> <-> Atlanta, GA) and is locked in a closet. ?On the VERY rare occation when
> the server crashes and I can't SSH into it I have to call the owner of the
> company and have him drop what he's doing and phsyically go down to the
> office unlock the closet and reset the server (he's the only one with keys,
> and I'd like to keep it that way). ?So you can see how this can become a
> nuisance, so I rarly update the box when one of us is not on-site (sometimes
> the system hangs on reboot after an update, but that's a whole nother
> issue).
>
> I've researched this in the past and the only solution I've been able to
> find is a DRAFT paper written in Dec 2005 by the School of Computing at the
> University of Utah: *http://*www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/whol-ftn-draft1.pdf
>
> While I am fairly handy with a soldering iron, but I don't feel comfortable
> using this homebrew solution for production use.
> So I am curious to hear what other BLU members are using to remotly reset
> machines via ethernet. ?Does a consumer grade or cheap enterprise solution
> exist?
> Do you think I should just suck it up and build one of these homebrew
> Whack-On-Lan switches?
>
> Thanks in advance for any/all comments & suggestions,
> -Chris
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