remote reset

[C. Ed Felt]

jeff wrote:

> I'll use nagios for monitoring.
>
> Ryan Erickson wrote:
>
>> There are commercially-available watchdog timers and heartbeat monitors
>> available.  I unfortunately don't have a recommendation, as I've never
>> needed them.
>>
>> Something like this, assuming you can get Linux software for the 
>> heartbeat...
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56100&item=5787506905&rd=1 
>>
>>
>> If I were doing it for a home / non-commercial setting, I'd probably 
>> just
>> build something with a Basic Stamp to monitor the serial tty, and 
>> look for
>> the panic message and / or a heartbeat message sent to the tty.  It'd be
>> easy to have the Basic Stamp open / close a contact to cause a relay
>> closure attached to the reset button.
>>
>> Ryan
>>
>>
> snip
>

I have some experience writing scripts to reboot a server via serial 
connection to an RPS-10 when the network goes down.  For a cheap price 
and a little scripting (mine is in Python) you can get what you need to 
power cycle a server when the Network goes down (or any other situation 
for that matter):

http://www.wti.com/rps-10.htm

- Ed Felt