[CentOS] Remote reboot problem

[Johnny Hughes]

On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:40 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote:
> 
> Chris Mauritz wrote:
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> > Sam Drinkard wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Chris Mauritz wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sam Drinkard wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Don't know if this might be hardware or software related, but it 
> >>>> seems that every time I attempt to do a remote reboot of the 
> >>>> machine, everything shuts down normally, and it never comes back.  
> >>>> Just returned from the co-lo site, and when I plugged the monitor 
> >>>> in, it had gone to the point of "rebooting" and hung.  This is 4.3  
> >>>> on x-86.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I have the same problem with an a few old Intel 815 chipset P3 
> >>> boxes, but it's never annoyed me enough to fix it.  8-)  I agree 
> >>> with Rodrigo that it's likely some sort of acpi issue
> >>>
> >>> Cheers,
> >>>
> >>>
> >> I'll try the acpi route prior to the next reboot. Just looked, and 
> >> it's an AMD Sempron 3100.  The machine runs flawlessly except for 
> >> this remote reboot problem.  I normally don't bother trying to reboot 
> >> except when there is a kernel update that fixes something.  As this 
> >> is a production machine too, I try to leave it running as much as 
> >> possible, and it's a PITA to have to get someone from the ISP's staff 
> >> to meet me at the co-lo site to let me in.  As for the arch, I 
> >> generally use i386 to indicate anything  intel or amd  that is not a 
> >> 64-bit processor, which as Jim mentioned is rather old terminology.  
> >> I came along when 8088's were the mainstay of computers.  Gosh, 
> >> thinking about that, it seems like it was a century ago !
> >
> >
> > While it doesn't address the underlying problem, if it's a PITA to get 
> > your datacenter folks to power cycle machines, why don't you get a 
> > network-attached power strip?  APC used to sell them rather cheaply 
> > and you could telnet (or use a web interface) to remotely power cycle 
> > individual outlets on the power strip.  I used to have these until 
> > there was a security exploit and APC was slow about releasing a fix.  
> > So I took them all out of service and throw a case of beer at the 
> > datacenter staff now and then.  They're only too happy to closely 
> > monitor things and fluff power as required now.  :-)
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> Chris, I didn't realize such an animal existed, but that would 
> definately help the folks save their free time on the weekends, or at 
> times no one is at the pop.  I used to have a device for controlling 
> remote stuff that was activated via dtmf tones over an RF link, but 
> that, unfortunately was very unsecure, however it did get used quite 
> often back in the days of NOS and other DL layer type packet systems.  
> I'm going to inquire tomorrow to see if they have any current means of 
> power cycling any of the racks or outlets, but as you say, fixing the 
> underlying problem would be the best to do.  The tech support guys don't 
> really complain about having to go down and meet me there, but I'm sure 
> their weekends are as valuable as anyone's, including mine, so anything 
> that would help free time stay that way would be nice.
> 
Sam,

I use these:

http://www.wti.com/ips4.htm

There are more choices with different options here:

http://www.wti.com/power.htm

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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