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powers itself on, all by itself
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 |
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powers itself on, all by itself
"Phil" wrote in message oups.com... 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 |
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powers itself on, all by itself
Phil wrote:
snip 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. It would be helpful to post to this NG the names of any kernel modules (either compiled-in or dynamically loaded) and any daemons responsible for this condition, and also to inspect the source code and mention the names of the authors responsible and their contact information. Regards, Michael |
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powers itself on, all by itself
It would be helpful to post to this NG the names of any kernel modules
(either compiled-in or dynamically loaded) and any daemons responsible for this condition, and also to inspect the source code and mention the names of the authors responsible and their contact information. Regards, Michael I'm trying to figure out what you want, it sounds like you want to hire a programmer. First, there is no magic "set of modules" to automate a bunch of custom servers or custom built applications. Learn Linux/Unix/Perl and everything else is VERY simple. All users would not have the same needs setting up and controlling a batch of servers anyway. In my case, it's all custom scripts and 99 percent of all our data processing is by perl scripts amd we are building all the scripts to do everything. I'm not for hire, but I'll be happy to share the basics on what you may need. So what do you need, how to load the new fedora on the Compaq's, how to configure the HP stuff in them, wol issues/setup, automating/ programming or just reference information. I can/will put a basic how-to together to setup Fedora on these Compaq's and include the problems and cures I ran into, basic configuration and perhaps some code snippets and/or how to control power on/off/reboot from the lan. It's all very simple, if you know the what's (like version numbers of what works), the when's (the sequence to load what when), and how's (guess the what and when is the majority of how's!). Frankly, I'm amazed I haven't had a hundred people tell me how-to on the various questions/problems I've had. Nutcracker is one of the most advanced here on this Compaq stuff, his only problem he is a windows man. I have to use linux and want to stick with redhat/fedora. Phil |
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powers itself on, all by itself
Phil wrote:
It would be helpful to post to this NG the names of any kernel modules (either compiled-in or dynamically loaded) and any daemons responsible for this condition, and also to inspect the source code and mention the names of the authors responsible and their contact information. Regards, Michael I'm trying to figure out what you want, it sounds like you want to hire a programmer. Not at all. You reported solving the problem of instrumenting these machines under linux; I just felt it would be useful to the world to publicize what kernel modules and daemons are doing the job and who wrote them or is responsible for them. If these include 'binary blobs' without released source knowing that would also be useful. Regards, Michael |
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