Remote Power Cycle
 

There are power strips I imagine you can control via internet or modem.

I ran across these links that use serial port:

This can ping your router & power cycle it, if needed.
http://larryo.org/work/information/x10ping/index.html

http://sldn.softlayer.com/wiki/index...er::powerCycle

http://www.42u.com/avocent-spc420v-1.htm

2 of the links about I believe are open source. The first link is a widget and the second is an actual linux project.


Can anyone recommend any other software/product combinations they use to remotely power cycle ???????

I use the Avocent product. Very trivial task to write a shell-script on a remote box, to have it check things, then issue the power-cycle command(s) accordingly. That way, even if you can't GET to the remote power-strip, it'll still cycle things for you.