WEBVTT 00:00:00.520 --> 00:00:06.359 we all know the computer Basics you want to turn your computer on you press this 00:00:04.600 --> 00:00:10.240 button on the front you want to see what the computer's doing you look at the 00:00:08.160 --> 00:00:13.200 monitor you want to reset the computer if it crashes you press this other 00:00:12.040 --> 00:00:19.199 button on the front but do you know how to do all of 00:00:16.640 --> 00:00:24.199 those things if you're a thousand miles away oh I know I know okay well good for 00:00:22.119 --> 00:00:30.200 you smarty pants here's a gold star for everyone else stay 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:36.480 tuned 00:00:36.480 --> 00:00:42.480 tunnel bear is the easy to use VPN service that lets you use the web as 00:00:40.680 --> 00:00:48.199 though you're in one of 20 different countries learn more and try tunnel bear 00:00:44.960 --> 00:00:50.640 for free at the link in the video 00:00:48.199 --> 00:00:54.640 description so there are a huge number of reasons that you might want to be 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:59.239 able to access or control your computer from far away it ranges from totally 00:00:56.760 --> 00:01:02.640 mainstream stuff like needing to grab a file off your your desktop for the 00:01:00.960 --> 00:01:07.880 homework assignment you were planning to print at school before handing it in 00:01:05.199 --> 00:01:12.159 which yeah whatever I think you still understood my point to Enthusiast stuff 00:01:10.520 --> 00:01:16.200 like realizing you want to share all those birthday pictures you took of 00:01:14.119 --> 00:01:21.920 little Joseph while you're visiting an Josephine and your FTP is down to it 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:25.759 administrator stuff like realizing that someone put Windows on one of your 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:28.880 servers and you need to throttle everyone else in the building's internet 00:01:27.200 --> 00:01:33.560 connection so not a moment is wasted while you download your faor Linux drro 00:01:30.880 --> 00:01:39.240 mounted as virtual media install it and restore order to the universe so let's 00:01:36.880 --> 00:01:43.560 start with more basic Solutions and work our way up to the cooler but regrettably 00:01:41.399 --> 00:01:47.880 more expensive ones the first one shouldn't cost a dime because if you 00:01:45.880 --> 00:01:53.200 already bought a decent PC in the last 10 years there's a very good chance that 00:01:50.079 --> 00:01:56.560 it has a feature called wake on land so 00:01:53.200 --> 00:01:59.520 the way wake on land works is as long as 00:01:56.560 --> 00:02:04.200 the computer is plugged into wall power even if it's in a shut down state it 00:02:02.039 --> 00:02:09.000 actually consumes a little bit of electricity Illuminating power indicator 00:02:06.719 --> 00:02:13.520 LEDs on your motherboard or power supply and even enabling functionality like 00:02:11.480 --> 00:02:19.599 charging plugged in phones or tablets over special USB ports and you guessed 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:24.000 it keeping your network card Juiced up enough that it can wait for what's 00:02:21.400 --> 00:02:29.000 called a magic packet and bring the whole computer to life wake on land can 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:34.400 be configured a handful of ways you can set it up in the ufi or the BIOS of your 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:37.879 motherboard or you can actually do it from within the network card 00:02:35.640 --> 00:02:43.440 configuration panel in most modern operating systems you can even specify 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:48.680 if you want a magic packet to only work in sleep versus when the machine is 00:02:46.120 --> 00:02:53.319 fully powered down Wake On L has some limitations though it requires either a 00:02:51.720 --> 00:02:58.920 separate machine that you can remote into using something like team viewer to 00:02:55.640 --> 00:03:01.959 use a utility to send a magic packet or 00:02:58.920 --> 00:03:04.440 a VPN or some firewall and routing rules 00:03:01.959 --> 00:03:10.080 to be configured for it to work from outside of the local network on top of 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:14.959 that wake on land is not capable of shutting down the computer that needs to 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:19.640 be done through your operating system so wake on land does nothing to help you if 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:24.440 the system hangs and is stuck in an unresponsive state or fails to boot for 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:29.120 one reason or another which leads us then into some janky solutions to this 00:03:26.959 --> 00:03:34.920 problem covering a bit of a range in terms of difficulty and expense first up 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:38.840 is a solution I actually really like this is a Bellin weimo you may remember 00:03:37.280 --> 00:03:42.200 it from the Channel Super Fun prank where burkel and I made the LMG staff 00:03:40.799 --> 00:03:48.680 believe they had triggered the building alarm you're going to want to check that out here this one is relatively cheap 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:53.599 and I already had it lying around but any smart home power socket that can be 00:03:51.519 --> 00:03:57.560 remotely switched on and off with an app will work for this so these things are 00:03:55.840 --> 00:04:02.519 intended for something like a bedside lamp but by configuring the comp 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:06.319 computer to turn the machine on after AC power loss and every non-lt that I've 00:04:04.720 --> 00:04:11.799 encountered has this option buried somewhere within the BIOS you can do a 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:16.560 hard shutdown using the weimo by just cutting power to it and then turn it 00:04:14.200 --> 00:04:20.199 back on if for whatever reason it fails to boot and the Machine should try to 00:04:18.600 --> 00:04:26.479 boot again well what if I don't want to spend $50 on a clever wall socket good 00:04:23.440 --> 00:04:28.759 question the way a PC powers on and off 00:04:26.479 --> 00:04:33.080 is simply by bridging two contacts on the motherboard power switch allowing 00:04:30.840 --> 00:04:38.759 electricity to flow so it's a short press to power on and to Safe power off 00:04:36.120 --> 00:04:43.680 and a long press for about 5 seconds for a hard forced shutdown so get creative 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:48.320 here's a great thread on the Raspberry Pi forums that covers some of the ways 00:04:45.639 --> 00:04:53.280 folks have used arduinos and raspberry pies to wire up the power on andof 00:04:51.039 --> 00:04:57.600 switches for their remote PCS and actually Luke even told me once about a 00:04:55.400 --> 00:05:02.680 solution that he created for someone who didn't want to spend a dime or an any 00:04:59.880 --> 00:05:07.880 time but who happened to have a spare laptop with an external 5 and 1/4 in 00:05:05.639 --> 00:05:12.320 optical drive where he put the optical drive next to the server's power switch 00:05:10.280 --> 00:05:17.560 so he could remote into the laptop and eject the dis tray causing it to bump 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:21.520 the power switch not an ideal solution but definitely creative and the sky is 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:25.479 pretty much the limit here but none of that stuff allows for the computer to be 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:31.120 fully managed in the same way that you could if you were sitting in front of it 00:05:27.800 --> 00:05:33.600 and that is where IPM comes in this 00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:38.440 super micro motherboard actually a super sexy soon to be relased microatx model 00:05:36.400 --> 00:05:43.039 with support for up to 22 core processors four sticks of quad Channel 00:05:40.360 --> 00:05:48.600 memory and dual onboard 10 GB network cards the x10 00:05:45.319 --> 00:05:52.160 srmf comes with a dedicated additional 00:05:48.600 --> 00:05:53.639 Network Port that is just for ipmi or 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:58.759 intelligent platform management interface you assign it a static IP 00:05:56.160 --> 00:06:03.720 within the BIOS then you can use any computer on the same network to navigate 00:06:00.919 --> 00:06:07.960 to that IP log in and assuming you've got your Java up toate and your security 00:06:05.680 --> 00:06:12.639 settings all configured you'll be looking at a whole wealth of freaking 00:06:10.840 --> 00:06:16.960 cool tools and functionalities you can see the system 00:06:14.800 --> 00:06:20.680 Hardware you can monitor server Health to see if your CPU is running cool 00:06:18.759 --> 00:06:24.520 enough and if it's not you can check if your fans are still spinning or you can 00:06:22.280 --> 00:06:29.880 set up a different fan curve you can do event logs you can mount virtual discs 00:06:26.840 --> 00:06:31.960 and drives you can of course power on or 00:06:29.880 --> 00:06:36.960 off the computer in any way you please and you can even do Advanced things like 00:06:34.319 --> 00:06:41.560 updating the BIOS or the IPI firmware and adjusting bio settings using the 00:06:39.039 --> 00:06:46.880 real-time view of the VGA output that's on the back of 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