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You could set up something to remotely power cycle it for you. A PLC, some relays and a modem or something like that. Maybe even a web interface if you're feeling fancy. On 5/25/07, Aaron Trevena <aaron.trevena@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hmm.... > > I occasionally day dream about having a carbon neutral data centre > somewhere in cornwall - there should be grants available. > > I think you could almost certainly get around the access issue (i.e. > engineers travelling to site to do things) with a good setup - inhouse > technicians should rarely have to intervene, but when they do, there > is no reason to not provide full audio/video/textual interaction > instead of the current scenario where you ask somebody in one office > over the phone to power-cycle a machine, they then create a job > ticket, some other person in another office has to walk from that > office to the colocation, press the power button, and close the ticket > (without checking for any boot or other signs of success or failure), > and then you call again 30 mins or an hour later to see if anybody > actually did restart the server or not. > > A. > > -- > http://www.aarontrevena.co.uk > LAMP System Integration, Development and Hosting > > -- > The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG > http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list > FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html