Ooo, nice! Thanks Tim!
I'll check that against some of the servers I use IPMI on and see if I
can use the "soft" option, it would be most useful if I could :D
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For info, the following is from ipmitool's man page, regarding power. using
the "soft" option on my server does appear to do a clean shutdown:
power
Performs a chassis control command to view and change the power state.
status
Show current chassis power status.
simply change the power button function to be programmed to recieve two or more
successive presses to "shutdown -r now" - i have done this on gentoo systems in
similar environments.
ian
Chris Dennis wrote:
>Hello folks
>
>I've got a Debian server sitting in an office near some desktop
>compu
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:06:44 +0100, cgden...@btinternet.com said:
> But that leaves no easy way to turn off the (headless) server other than
> holding the power button for four seconds
$ ssh server sudo poweroff
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On 19 April 2012 20:54, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> Hmmm. Not what I've seen...
>
> IPMI provides a series of options as given by ipmitool. These are status, on,
> off, cycle, reset, diag, soft. I have not played with them extensively (yet),
> but (on my hardware) "on" certainly emulates pressing th
On Thursday 19 Apr 2012 18:14:32 James Bensley wrote:
> On 19 April 2012 18:00, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> > If you have IPMI on the server (which you will on full server-class
> > hardware) then you can do remote poweroff/poweron reasonably easily (I
> > can easily demonstrate this at the next mee
On 19 April 2012 18:25, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I have not used IPMI, only iLO(HP) and DRAC (Dell)
> I wish they could come up with an industry standard name.
IPMI *is* the industry standard one (well in the sense that its open
and no proprietary!). I use it on Dells and SGIs.
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On 19 April 2012 18:14, James Bensley wrote:
> On 19 April 2012 18:00, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
>> If you have IPMI on the server (which you will on full server-class hardware)
>> then you can do remote poweroff/poweron reasonably easily (I can easily
>> demonstrate this at the next meeting if the
On 19 April 2012 18:00, Tim Brocklehurst wrote:
> If you have IPMI on the server (which you will on full server-class hardware)
> then you can do remote poweroff/poweron reasonably easily (I can easily
> demonstrate this at the next meeting if there is demand.
I disagree with this idea (sorry Tim
If you have IPMI on the server (which you will on full server-class hardware)
then you can do remote poweroff/poweron reasonably easily (I can easily
demonstrate this at the next meeting if there is demand.
The other obvious question is why are the users anywhere near the server? Keep
it in a s
How about rsh/ssh or similar & shutdown.
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On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 17:03 +0100, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> I find a big sticker right next to the power button saying "DO NOT
> SWITCH OFF. Talk to XYZ first." seems to work quite well.
> It improves the user interface of the power button.
It does, but...
Hm, in a past life we used to do
Think this one is a winner...
I had the pleasure of meeting James the other day and he is most
definitely the server God! :)
On 04/19/2012 05:31 PM, James Bensley wrote:
Disconnect the real power button, and place another somewhere else,
that's hidden?
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Disconnect the real power button, and place another somewhere else,
that's hidden?
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On 19/04/12 17:03, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
I find a big sticker right next to the power button saying "DO NOT
SWITCH OFF. Talk to XYZ first." seems to work quite well.
It improves the user interface of the power button.
The consensus seems to be for a low-tech solution to the problem.
So
On 19 April 2012 16:06, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> I've got a Debian server sitting in an office near some desktop computers,
> so occasionally people press the power button on the server by mistake, and
> it turns itself off.
>
> To avoid that, I've tweaked /etc/acpi/powerbtn-acpi-supp
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:34 +0100, Chris Liddell wrote:
> On 19/04/12 16:28, Simon Reap wrote:
> > Have you tried a big stick?
>
> On the server or the users.?
> ;-)
>
Definitely a LART[1] (big stick, mains wired up to the power switch -
you choose...) :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
On 19/04/12 16:28, Simon Reap wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:06 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
>> Hello folks
>>
>> I've got a Debian server sitting in an office near some desktop
>> computers, so occasionally people press the power button on the server
>> by mistake, and it turns itself off.
>>
>
On Thu, 2012-04-19 at 16:06 +0100, Chris Dennis wrote:
> Hello folks
>
> I've got a Debian server sitting in an office near some desktop
> computers, so occasionally people press the power button on the server
> by mistake, and it turns itself off.
>
> [snip]
>
> Before I do that, does anyone
Hello folks
I've got a Debian server sitting in an office near some desktop
computers, so occasionally people press the power button on the server
by mistake, and it turns itself off.
To avoid that, I've tweaked /etc/acpi/powerbtn-acpi-support.sh, and now
it ignores the power button.
But t
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