On Sun, 26 Feb 2023, Robert Citek wrote:
By "server", I am assuming that you mean some system on rails in a rack in a datacenter with raised flooring, hot/cold aisles, redundant power/networking, and physical security. In that environment, you usually can ( and want to ) be able to work on a downed server remotely. For example, Dell has iDRAC/DRAC and HP has iLO. For those systems that don't have built-in out-of-band ( OOB ) management, there are multi-port KVM over IP switches with many having virtual USB/CDs and power control.[1] For single use, there is the Lantronix Spider which is also available with remote power control.[2] In other words, you can connect over the internet to the DRAC/KVM ( e.g. ssh ), upload an ISO of your OS onto the virtual CD, power cycle the box, and have full remote control from BIOS to RAID to OS repair/installation.
Robert, As a non-computer industry business owner I appreciate learning this. Not that I'll have need for it, but it deepens my understanding of business computer use. Thank you, Rich
