On Sat, 2017-06-24 at 11:04 -0500, Don Wright wrote:

> Just teleport into the datacenter on the other side of the planet, or the
> office building where your after-hours key card doesn't work because all
> cards were cancelled following the alleged burglary last week*, or do some
> other Herculean task, and insert that healing potion.

One acronym. IPMI. When it is truly important, use real server
hardware designed to be remotely managed. In a worst case scenario like
you describe you might need a Windows PC on your end to use the full
featured vendor supplied IPMI client tools that let you remote mount a
USB stick or CD to a machine but it can do it. Of course now they are
pushing the almost entirely closed Intel AMT stuff. Bleh.