This reminds me of a story that isn't mine; one of my coworkers working a university and had a similar problem. They glued a stick to the CD-ROM drive of one s

This reminds me of a story that isn't mine; one of my coworkers working a university and had a similar problem. They glued a stick to the CD-ROM drive of one server pointing at the restart button of another server. When they needed to force reboot that second server, they issued a command to the first server to open its CD-ROM drive.