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We want to shutdown the filer in the event of a (more than 10 minute) power failure to the computer room. We have a (NT hosted) script that hits all the NT/2k servers and also telnets to the Sun server and "INIT 5"'s them.
Hunted around NOW site, and Google groups, but to no avail. Anyone got a means (either from NT/2K or Sun) to automatically remotely (but cleanly!) stop/halt the Filer. And can you power it off that way too?
No users will be operational (no UPS for the user community) so managing remote connections is not a concern.
Configure rsh access for the IP/user of your sun and make a crontab that runs:
$ rsh <filer> halt
Of course you can test rsh access with easier commands like "sysconfig" or "echo".
Kind regards,