Force router reset while away

mike-s wrote:
I've worked for years in data center environments - it's much more common to use PDUs to power cycle equipment because someone fat-fingered a configuration change than because the device just went dead on its own. That can happen, too, but it's a pretty rare occasion, certainly not daily or the device wouldn't be on the network. All non-trivial software has bugs. PDUs are also used to monitor power, and at times to shut off non-critical devices, such as during a power failure to conserve UPS capacity.

I'm very curious what data center you worked at that power cycle via the pdu, considering most power banks on the pdu have multiple servers, also not sure why your not using ilo or drac ports. i work in data centers daily and have never seen this practice, way to easy to power cycle the wrong servers..