Starting a server via IPMI?

[Peanuthead]

I'm looking at adding cold storage to my home. Is it possible to starting a server via IPMI or something? Ideally i would SSH into IPMI, start the server, backup, then shut it down. Thoughts? My other option is just to have the system spin the drives down. It really accomplishes the same thing just about - keeping a second backup on hand.

 

[Blinky 42]

Yes you can script power on/off/reboot for servers with ipmi pretty easy. You wouldn't ssh into the ipmi itself, just use ipmitool on a linux box and script that runs something like

ipmitool -H 10.10.52.72 -U blinkyipmi  chassis power on

then do whatever on the server and have it shutdown and power off when done.

 

[Peanuthead]

Very cool. I figured it could be done but easier to ask than get the correct Google search in place. The plan is to making a 1U cold storage server using Windows and Storage Spaces.

 

[fractal]

You should be able to use wake-on-lan too. That works on boxes that don't have IPMI.