Some background:
- have a poweredge r320 on battery backup (basic APC unit)
- have unifi dream machine
- poweredge powers down automatically if power goes out
What’s the safest way to allow myself to power on the server in the event it shuts down while I’m not home?
I figure since I have remote access to my UDM, perhaps there’s a command I can execute from there to power it on?
My fear is using a method that provides more than just poweron commands remotely. I want to keep the server attack vectors down.
I’ve never had an issue with Wake on Lan but you should configure it to only respond to wakeup packets from the (presumably) static IP you have set for your UDM. My setup works great, but I’m remoting into a raspi on the local network to accomplish the same goal. I believe you can also use hostname if the IP is dynamic, but I trust a MAC bound static IP for security.