Manage servers with RPi

[PulseHeberg]

Hello,

We are an association that specializes in hosting servers.
We are putting in place a dedicated infrastructure on our own machines and are therefore looking for a hardware solution to manage the reboot our servers ..

We thought to connect son on restart buttons servers and GPIO ports RPi card, it seems there a good idea? Would you have another idea to offer with RPi?

Knowing roughly the mass of servers to manage for a bay is 28 machines is it feasible with a card or does it need more?

Thank you in advance

[FLYFISH TECHNOLOGIES]

Hi,

Take care that you isolate RasPi and servers' reset button.

Otherwise, this seems to me very straight forward challenge... which watchdog utility are you going to use on servers ?


Best wishes, Ivan Zilic.

[riklaunim]

Do you really need a separate machine to reboot them? Most server hardware has similar features available over LAN for example, and it would be quite odd that a server would need "physical" reset. And there are puppet and other system scripting services that can help manage them over network.

[PulseHeberg]

Watchdog softs will be iLO/IDRAC

But if the server's hardware is off, how can we make a hard reboot so ?..

[chashopkins]

If I remember rightly you can do a power on with iLO on dell and hp servers or you can buy power strips with network interface. That's how we planned to manage our Ireland office, otherwise you need a local button monkey with access to server room.

[Mmega]

You can use NPN transistors like this for each server:

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