nixCraft

Ok here's the case:
a whole bunch of M$ terminal servers that hang after every patch tuesday update. We need to manually reboot them using DRAC and ILO's wich is time consuming. Now these drac and ilo devices support SSH and it is possible to login in and give them a reboot command.
Now I figured I could run a script from a linux server that automatically log in remotely and gives the server(s) the reboot command, thought about using this one:
http://nixcraft.com/shell-scripting/...ng-unix-login-passwords-through-shell-scripts.html

Has anyone ever done this before in such a case? Offcourse the command's for drac and ilo's are different then linux/unix.

Is it like IPMI over KVM? I'm not aware of drac/ilo reboot commands. But usually, you can do something as follows for IPMI devices:
Also IPMI over KVM got their own IPs with command to reboot, shutdown or restart the remote servers. The following put into Windows SAC (Special Administration Console) from Linux server:
You can use expect tool to automate entier login procedure and issue drac/ilo reboot command.

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Hi Vivek, we have no ipmi support, ilo=integrated lights out from HP and Drac a similar tool from dell. Basically you can approach your server and power off/on if the server is not responding through RDP.
I believe the DRAC command is reset /servername
I am gonna try the expect tool and see what goes