Cohosting around Lebanon - suggestions?

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 01:05:22AM -0500, Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
> On Thu, January 26, 2006 11:54 pm, Bill McGonigle wrote:
> 
> > We'd probably want to fund a terminal server/remote power unit to share
> > for decent non-driving management.  I have a Zyplex with lots of serial
> > ports but it only speaks telnet, so there would be need for a pokey ssh
> > box in front of it, which might not be worth another U.
> 
> Somewhere, I've got a power strip that allows remote access.  Not sure
> what protocols it speaks.  I think it's an APC, so that probably says
> something to someone.  I'd be glad to contribute it for this project; I
> imagine poking around with the docs could get it up and running fairly
> quickly.  [I, too, have an older-than-death Ethernet-to-RS-232 gizmo. 
> Since it actually has an AUI port, in addition to the 10-Base-T port, I
> imagine it only supports telnet.]

Presumably this is an "APC Masterswitch." I actually wrote a perl script
to talk to one of those things at Wedu. They're typically pretty simple:
You telnet in, you can get a status of plugs, you can turn them off or
on or cycle.

We used it to do our heartbeat STONITH (Shoot the Other Node In the
Head) step. Worked pretty well when we wanted to kill a machine and
din't want to drive to the colo (even though it was only a mile away).

It does only support telnet, and only 8 char passwords at that. (At
least, ours does.) Note that this was determined by trial and error, and
was not documented anywhere obvious.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer
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