<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Okay for clarity... a mechanical solution to pushing the buttons on the NUC is of Rube Goldberg complexity. It is completely unnecessary and hellaciously prone to failure. <br><br></div>You can literally wire into where the on / off switch is... or optimally directly to the jumper on the board itself with a microcontroller ( i'd use a beaglebone black personally for the ethernet port mainly ) . Then you can use a GPIO pin to switch the board on and off. More so, you can wire the GPIO ( at 5v ) to a mechanical relay in line with the 110/220v+ line and get hard cycling added as a capability. Using mindstorms for this is neat, but frankly way overly complex and less useful.<br><br></div>Hell if you were crazy you could wire up a usb hub to some ttyusb -> db9 cables and host it to the beaglebone as well for serial console.<br><br></div><div>Go still further down the path to damned near implementing your own IPMI solution you could directly parasite into the on board sensors and read them direct.<br><br>Going the final leg of the journey... you could directly ADC the VGA port and soft render that into a RDP window along with some sort of API -> USB HID device stack... and bob's your uncle you've built your own LOM board. Then all you need to do is re-implement IPMI protocol and tie it to the hardware.<br><br></div><div>Half way to an open source LOM board at that point.<br></div><div><br></div>But honestly, with AMT that's not really necessary here.<br><br></div>Still... open source LOM would be nice.<br><br></div>-matt<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Abel Lopez <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alopgeek@gmail.com" target="_blank">alopgeek@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">There is DIY LOM for the NUC, it was demo'd at Paris Summit. It was quite elegant, featuring LEGO Mindstorm robots being instructed to push the power button.<div><div class="h5"><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 11, 2015, at 9:12 AM, Will Snow (wasnow) <<a href="mailto:wasnow@cisco.com" target="_blank">wasnow@cisco.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div>
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<div>I have a covey (pod? Gaggle?) of 4 NUCs with 1 being the master to deploy the others. That master has 2 nics (built in 1g, wifi) so you can very easily connect your cloud to your network.</div>
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<div>This allows my developers to test real multinode deploys of openstack repeatedly without the expense of 3 rack servers, and they can carry around the cloud to meetups or whereever they want to go.</div>
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<div>There are a few tweaks to what we’re doing that are based on feedback from what we’ve built already. I use the NUCs as the price point is good, and Intel is down the street from me :)</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 8:30 AM<br>
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>> I’ve been building out a small cluster of intel NUC’s and have been<br>
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