[Tfug] OT - PC Autostart Hardware

[Jim Secan]

Looks like good info.  We had been using a heartbeat rebooter (in a  
previous Windoze version of the system) that caused more problems than  
it solved.  I ended up disabling the beast and running a simple ping- 
based script from a Linux box with a tie-in to a network power  
switch.  No ping response or no data coming in, cycle the power.  I'd  
like to take the second box and the network power switch out of the  
loop.  I can't watch for OS hangs that way, but those are far less a  
problem than process and receiver-handoff hangs.

Jim
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On Feb 3, 2009, at 4:13 PM, Robert Hunter wrote:

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> Jim, I think we had a similar thread about this at one point in the
> past.  Someone else mentioned the use of a add-on board to manage
> systems.  I also found this Wikipedia article that may have some
> useful information:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-of-band_management