anyone know of a power cycle box?

Hi All,

I work remotely on a particularly crappy Windows 7 computer
(cheap hardware). It crashes a lot.

Anyone know of a remote network activated box that will power
cycle a crashed computer?

Many thanks,
-T

On 1/7/2016 12:03 AM, T wrote:
Hi All,

I work remotely on a particularly crappy Windows 7 computer
(cheap hardware). It crashes a lot.

Anyone know of a remote network activated box that will power
cycle a crashed computer?

Many thanks,
-T

There are a zillion kinds of network activated power switches.
Several different protocols, so predict who's gonna win
and buy that one. Might find it cheaper to fix the computer.

En el artículo , T
escribió:

Anyone know of a remote network activated box that will power
cycle a crashed computer?

Google Dataprobe's iBoot.

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On 01/07/2016 12:31 AM, mike wrote:
Might find it cheaper to fix the computer.

It is one of those specialty point-of-sale vendor provided
no expenses barred jobs. It also resides in a harsh
environment ( 0 F to 140 F ) and uses the cheapest commercial
parts.

I would like to say, you know what I am talking about, but
I would be surprised if you didn't. sign :-(

T wrote:
Hi All,

I work remotely on a particularly crappy Windows 7 computer
(cheap hardware). It crashes a lot.

Anyone know of a remote network activated box that will power
cycle a crashed computer?

Many thanks,
-T

We used to use "Dataprobe iBoot-G2 Basic Network Power Switch - 1 Outlet" on the
SCADA equipment. They worked well. The scada stuff seems to lock up a lot but
we worked with the scada manufacturers to add firmware programming so that all
devices can reboot automatically once per day.

Per (PeteCresswell):
On an IP camera server about 100 miles away, I've been using a sort of
redneck power cycle approach for over year now.

Just a clock timer in the AC line that cuts power at 01:30 every morning
and restores it at 01:35.

OOPS !..... Ignore that... I lied.

Just checked and the clock timer is only cycling a radio link and
cameras..... the Windows 7 PC is shutting itself down and re-booting per
a scheduled task.

But I do have all my boxes' BIOS set up so that they automagically
reboot when power is removed/restored....

And I think I actually *have* had a problem or two where the PC came up
in a state requiring an answer to a DOS prompt.

The other problem I have had are at a client site where the PC is
required to have an encrypted System drive and there is just no escape
from a DOS-based PW prompt.
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On 1/8/2016 9:48 AM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:


And I think I actually *have* had a problem or two where the PC came up
in a state requiring an answer to a DOS prompt.

The other problem I have had are at a client site where the PC is
required to have an encrypted System drive and there is just no escape
from a DOS-based PW prompt.

Is it not feasible to have a boot partition that sends the manager
an email and supports remote login to unlock the encrypted partition?

Per SC Tom:
What I remembered was the Remote Insight Board, IIRC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrated_Lights-Out

According to the article, manufacture was stopped in 2006, although you
might be able to find one on eBay, Craig's list, etc.

Sounds like the Term-Of-Art is "Lights-Out Technology".

Never even dreamed there was such a thing but, now that it's come up, I
can see that it is almost a necessity for administering servers
remotely.
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Pete Cresswell

Per (PeteCresswell):
Sounds like the Term-Of-Art is "Lights-Out Technology".

Oops!.... SHB "Lights-Out Management".
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Per SC Tom:
What I remembered was the Remote Insight Board, IIRC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Integrated_Lights-Out

According to the article, manufacture was stopped in 2006, although you
might be able to find one on eBay, Craig's list, etc.

Sounds like the Term-Of-Art is "Lights-Out Technology".

Never even dreamed there was such a thing but, now that it's come up, I
can see that it is almost a necessity for administering servers
remotely.

It was absolutely great. Never had any problems with it that I can recall,
and saved a lot in the way of air fare :-)
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SC Tom