moronsbegone wrote:
If the unit has high dollar choices of hard ware use a DRAC 5
net card, our Dell servers use them, When you Telnet into them
and command a shutdown, it does not argue, it shuts down even
at the cost of head crash!!!!

In what universe does a hard shutdown cause a head crash?

The reason you don't want a hard shutdown (other than spyware
having to flush everything it has gathered out the network
interface) is to make sure everything gets written to disk.

Painful to lose the last few seconds worth of disk updates,
perhaps, but far from a head crash.

And, yes, remote management consoles are useful.