[Ilugc] [OT] network power switch

[Mano]

On 10/6/06, Binand Sethumadhavan <binand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 06/10/06, Mano <manokaran at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyone knows if and where networked power swicthes are available in
> Chennai?
> > Or Bangalore? The one that connects to an ethernet and can be switched
> on
> > and off through the network.
>
> No idea where in Chennai you could get those, but do you mean:
>
> 1. An out-of-band ethernet-based server management system ("Lights-out
> Management")?
> 2. Wake-on-lan capability in your server?
> 3. Something entirely different?
>
>
It is for use in a GFS cluster where an errant node can be 'fenced' by sane
nodes. I do not know which of the above category it falls under! Maybe its
like the lights out management but for a pc class box - not server class
machines.

thanks,
mano