Subject: Re: interrupting the console monitor
To: Rob Robertson <rob@remarque.org>
From: Dave Cherkus <cherkus@homerun.unimaster.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 12/29/1998 10:48:11
It isn't possible as you describe it.  The only Alpha systems that
support this would be the 7000 and 8x00 "enterprise servers".  All
other *servers* use an option (KCRCM) that is implemented on the system
board for newer servers and as an ISA plug-in board for older servers
that interposes a microprocessor in the serial data stream that
watches for the magic key sequence then allows you to halt/reboot/
powerup/powerdown.  None of the workstations (and the AS200 is a
workstation) have the wiring needed to support this option.

I think the canonic answer here is to buy a UPS with a serial port
that supports remote powerup/powerdown commands.

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