Hardware server monitor?
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Hi, I have a few spare computer parts around and I'd like to build a machine that would monitor my home server, and reset it (hard reset, power off then on) if it is down. How can I build such a thing? Can I buy something that I'd plug in the monitoring computer (USB, PCI or whatever) that would allow me to reset another machine with some code? Thanks! Carl
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Hi, I have a few spare computer parts around and I'd like to build a machine that would monitor my home server, and reset it (hard reset, power off then on) if it is down. How can I build such a thing? Can I buy something that I'd plug in the monitoring computer (USB, PCI or whatever) that would allow me to reset another machine with some code? Thanks! Carl
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http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off.html Hope it helps ...
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Wow! That's an amazing device... but it's somewhat expensive! I'd like to be able to control my server (pull the plug) from another computer... Any device like that is available? Thanks!
I agree that the device is not that affordable. If you want to monitor from another computer, you can perform a remote monitoring of, for example, the "System" process of the monitored machine or an application of your own if required. This is possible with the Services API or via WMI (not exhaustive). Once sure that the OS is not responding, you can send a +5V signal using a data acquisition card on the monitoring machine and two wires plugged to the reset connector. Maybe I missed something ...