Re: Remote server management

[Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com>]

Marcel Hicking wrote:

> <advertising mode on>
> BWCT offers several terminal servers with the usual ethernet access
> and terminal server features. Apart from the interesting feature of
> wireing them up via USB they offer relais ports to switch a reset
> line or your ATX power switches. I'd estimate that already a few
> ROL-F cards plus a terminal server with multiport RS232 card will
> come in more expensive than their 16-port 19"/1U base box. Further
> extension boxes are cheaper as the don't need a cpu. The guys are
> very cooperative and can produce quite any indiviual configration.
> See their webpage www.bwct.de for details or better contact them by
> email.
> </advertising mode on>
>
>
> Cheers, Marcel
>
>
>  
Just about every remote power switch I've ever worked with in a 
Telecommunications central office and small office environment has had 
the option of including "dry contact closure" relays added on, or 
they're already on the device and not wired to anything.  Run them over 
to the reset switch and you're done.

Most of them cost more than the average ISP spends on a server, however 
-- because they're NEBS rated, UL listed, yadda yadda yadda, and dipped 
in solid gold (a joke about the price), and sold to companies with wads 
of cash.

But they've been available for a loooong time.  Decades, really.

Nate