"Phil" wrote in message
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Perhaps a primitive question to someone, but why does it power itself
on, all by itself .

I still use a bunch of the old DL380G1's (dual 1gig, 2 gig ram) and
recently started upgrading to Fedora 6. The severers are working
flawlessly, all the health stuff installed and that too is working
properly.

My problem, I have a unit all hooked up but powered down, it turned on
all by itself. No wake on lan stuff, just the standard Compaq cards, a
5300/64 controller and a Compaq dual nic.

With me on an energy conservation kick, this thing is not cooperating,
any suggestions ??

Thanks, Phil



Ok, perhaps that was the wrong question to ask .

I found out why and how that thing turned itself on and in doing so,
discovered that the old DL380, ML370, and the DL580 G1's was ahead of it's
time. It not only has full WOL (Wake On LAN) but also PXE support (Preboot
Execution Environment). In other words, software can setup and control all
this.

About a year ago I was asking how I might power-on these machines when
powerd up or lan control, and aside from the suggested lights out cards I
got no other answers. I found others trying to find out how to make WOL
work, also with no success. Do a google on "compaq DL380 wol" and it gets no
positive results on how to make it work, just more questions, and lots of
them.

Well, it all works, Fedora 3 and 6 (probably all flavors), automated fan /
temperature control, wol, and many other features, and I might say, it's as
slick as a new babies butt.

I now have 100% remote control of starting, rebooting, shutting down of
linux os and the server and full AC line power on / off. This allows total
control or automation via remote scripts over the network.

For example, I can now have a couple of backup machines to replace any of
multiple different working servers. Say you have a script monitoring a
process and it detects a problem with server X, it can fire up a standby
server reconfigure the IP address to match the downed/problem servers
address and load the needed applications for replacing the lost server. A
replacement server can be auto configured and on-line in the time it takes a
machine to boot, a totally automated process.

Ain't bad !
Phil