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From: dlow@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Danny Low)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: the PC as a power strip
Message-ID: <1640086@hpspcoi.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Mar 90 21:37:13 GMT
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>Does anyone know of a card/peripheral that might allow a separate
>"maintenance" PC to control power to these file servers?  It
>would be co-located with them probably with secured dial-up access
>(is that an oxymoron?) so that the technician, rather than traveling
>to the site, would dial up the "maintenance" PC and have it power
>on/off the file server in trouble.
>
>Does anything like this exist?

There is at least one product that can do this but whether it fully
meets this need is questionable. There are several hardware based
debuggers for the PC code. Atron makes one such product (called the
Atron Probe.) Part of these products is a probe that clips into the 
power at some point and can be used to force a power reset. 
You can also make such probe yourself. It is conceptually and 
practically very simple to do. All you have to do is find 
where to hook the probe. The remote wiggling of the probe is also simple 
as long as you do not worry too much about security.

			   Danny Low
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