[K12OSN] Remote shutdown/startup Thin Clients

[Jay Pfaffman]

I'm profoundly lazy.  Can't these things put themselves to sleep?  Maybe not.

If you turn on ssh on the clients & put a key in root's
.ssh/authorized_keys file you could do something like this:

for x in 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ; do ssh -l root 192.168.1.$x shutdown -h now; done

Oh, wait.  The clients don't run a ssh daemon.

Another way would be to use cron, but the clients don't run cron either.

You could make the clients run this stuff.  Turning them on
automatically might be possible with the machine'sBIOS.

A simple solution would be to turn off the power to the circuits that
the machines are plugged in to.  It's not really necessary to do a
clean shutdown.  Just pull the plug or hit the power strip.

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:30:57 +0200, Immanuel Derks
<i.derks at translucent.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if anybody has already some experience with remotely powering
> down/up of APCI capable thin clients. What do you need to enable this?
> We have 60 Netier 1000XL on a site, and could save the librarian a lot
> of work by getting this feature working.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Immanuel Derks
> 
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Jay Pfaffman                           <pfaffman at utk.edu>
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