[ydl-gen] Remote Power Control for G5 w/ YDL ...

[Kai Staats]

Joe,

> We have several G5s running YDL in a server room. I would like to be able
> to turn them on and off remotely as the server room usually cannot be
> entered. Turning them off remotely is fairly easy but turning them back on
> is the tricky part as they do not seem to support BOOT-ON-LAN. I found
> power strips that can be controlled via Ethernet but I cannot figure out
> how to configure the G5s so they power up when (re-)connected to power.
>
> I read that there is a way to change the settings using the Mac O/S but not
> via nvram (auto-boot). The biggest problem is that these are re-furbished
> G5s with YDL installed on them and there was no Mac O/S media that came
> with them.
>
> Has anybody been able to set up their G5 Xserve to power on upon power
> connection using nvram?

I believe there is a firmware setting for auto-power-on with power, but I need 
to do some digging --OWEN, do you remember, can this be done?

kai