UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

i have doubt about how to power on server from remote location with out contacting with data center people? please anybody replay with whole info.
thank you.

It would help enormously if we knew exactly what hardware you have - however for most x86 boxes when the power switch is physically "off" your have to flip the switch, for example.

To avoid sounding like a vendor, I'll suggest looking for a Switched Rack PDU or similar product. They allow you to connect in to the PDU to control an individual outlet at a data center. Be sure to protect the PDU or you'll find your servers shutdown or worse. Combine this with a BIOS setting to turn on when power is restored, and you have total reboot / shutdown / power on control

If you know the MAC address and the right broadcast address it's possible -- only just possible -- that you might be able to send a wake-on-LAN signal to the subnet,, and have it received by your server. More likely, you won't be able to send that signal unless you actually ARE on that subnet. It's possible it won't abide by WOL at all.

Most likely, you'll need to contact the datacenter.

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All x86 boxes are ATX now and therefore with the capability for external wakeups. Most x86 boxes have built-in LAN and wake-on-lan these days too. However it may not be enabled, or even attached to anything, so if they didn't plan for remote wakeups, it's probably not been arranged properly...