Servers - Powering On Remotely?

[Guest]

Hi, is there a way to power on a server remotely or with a remote access? Possibly with software or something? I'm trying to test which servers need to be on and off and if possible this is going to be amazing. 

[0ld_Chicken]

im not 100% certain but I'm pretty sure I can set my asus board to turn on when I connect remotely, but it might just be wake up instead of powering on

[Guest]

im not 100% certain but I'm pretty sure I can set my asus board to turn on when I connect remotely, but it might just be wake up instead of powering on

Where are those settings? Can you do a screenshot? 

[Taswell]

you have to setup wake-on-Lan in the bios

[failblox]

I think LogMeIn has something like that which you can configure in their software. I used LogMeIn back when it was still free, but I never tried out that feature (you have to pay for it now). Another remote access software I've heard of is TeamViewer, but I've never tried it personally and I don't know if they have that feature.

[iamdarkyoshi]

you have to setup wake-on-Lan in the bios

This. My dad set this up on our old mediaserver.

[0ld_Chicken]

Where are those settings? Can you do a screenshot? 

I can't find my spare usb drive (been meaning to buy one) and thats the only way ive heard of taking bios screenshots but i'll take a phone pic of what I mean and edit it in here in a minute.

[0ld_Chicken]

you have to setup wake-on-Lan in the bios

that is it

[Guest]

Fucking sexy, thank you so much. 

[Guest]

Hmmmm I wonder if it would be harder to power off a server depending on the connection type... and app being used... I could be wrong though 

[unijab]

IPMI lan port....

[Neil]

ipmi is the best way

[Guest]

ipmi is the best way

How? What is it and what does it do? 

[brwainer]

How? What is it and what does it do? 

IPMI is a feature built into some motherboards, mostly server and workstation boards, that lets you monitor and control the computer over the network, even when the computer is turned off or in BIOS or won't boot. most if not all IMPI implementations will let you turn on or off the computer from a web browser on another computer, and lots more. It does require you to actively sign into the IPMI server on the motherboard in order to turn on the computer, and you have to have a motherboard with it built in. If you don't have that and don't want to buy a motherboard with that, the Wake On Lan is your best bet. You have to enable it in your BIOS if it's the onboard NIC, or in the device properties if it's an addon NIC. Then you send a specially crafted data packet from another computer (this computer MUST be on the same ethernet network) in order to command the computer to turn on. I've never looked, but I'm sure there is a simple program for every OS, probably smartphones too, to send that data packet. The way LogMeIn does it is you have to have two computers on the same LogMeIn account on the same network, one that is on and one that is off but you want to turn on. Logmein uses the one that is turned on to turn the other one on.