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powerman - power on/off nodes
SYNOPSISpm [-options] -action [targets] [-action [targets] ...]
DESCRIPTION
powerman provides power management in a data center or compute cluster
environment. It performs operations such as power on, power off, and
power cycle via remote power controller (RPC) devices. Target host‐
names are mapped to plugs on RPC devices in powerman.conf(5).
OPTIONS-1, --on targets
Power ON targets.
-0, --off targets
Power OFF targets.
-c, --cycle targets
Power cycle targets.
-r, --reset targets
Assert hardware reset for targets (if implemented by RPC).
-f, --flash targets
Turn beacon ON for targets (if implemented by RPC).
-u, --unflash targets
Turn beacon OFF for targets (if implemented by RPC).
-l, --list
List available targets. If possible, output will be compressed
into a host range (see TARGET SPECIFICATION below).
-q, --query-all
Query plug status of all targets. Status is not cached; each
time this option is used, powermand queries the appropriate
RPC's. Targets connected to RPC's that could not be contacted
(e.g. due to network failure) are reported as status "unknown".
If possible, output will be compressed into host ranges.
-Q, --query targets
Query plug status of specific targets.
-n, --soft-all
Query soft power status of all targets (if implemented by RPC).
In this context, a node in the OFF state could be ON at the plug
but operating in standby power mode.
-N, --soft targets
Query soft power status of specific targets (if implemented by
RPC).
-b, --beacon-all
Query beacon status of all targets (if implemented by RPC).
-B, --beacon targets
Query beacon status of specific targets (if implemented by RPC).
-t, --temp-all
Query node temperature of all targets (if implemented by RPC).
Temperature information is not interpreted by powerman and is
reported as received from the RPC on one line per target, pre‐
fixed by target name.
-P, --temp targets
Query node temperature of specific targets (if implemented by
RPC).
-L, --license
Show powerman license information.
-h, --server-host host[:port]
Connect to a powerman daemon on non-default host and optionally
port.
-V, --version
Display the powerman version number and exit.
-D, --device
Displays RPC status information. If targets are specified, only
RPC's matching the target list are displayed.
-T, --telemetry
Causes RPC telemetry information to be displayed as commands are
processed. Useful for debugging device scripts.
-x, --exprange
Expand host ranges in query responses.
-g, --genders
If configured with the genders(3) package, this option tells
powerman that targets are genders attributes that map to node
names rather than the node names themselves.
TARGET SPECIFICATION
powerman target hostnames may be specified as comma separated or space
separated hostnames or host ranges. Host ranges are of the general
form: prefix[n-m,l-k,...], where n < m and l < k, etc., This form
should not be confused with regular expression character classes (also
denoted by ``[]''). For example, foo[19] does not represent foo1 or
foo9, but rather represents a degenerate range: foo19.
This range syntax is meant only as a convenience on clusters with a
prefixNN naming convention and specification of ranges should not be
considered necessary -- the list foo1,foo9 could be specified as such,
or by the range foo[1,9].
Some examples of powerman targets follows:
Power on hosts bar,baz,foo01,foo02,...,foo05
powerman --on bar baz foo[01-05]
Power on hosts bar,foo7,foo9,foo10
powerman --on bar,foo[7,9-10]
Power on foo0,foo4,foo5
powerman --on foo[0,4-5]
As a reminder to the reader, some shells will interpret brackets ([ and
]) for pattern matching. Depending on your shell, it may be necessary
to enclose ranged lists within quotes. For example, in tcsh, the last
example above should be executed as:
powerman --on "foo[0,4-5]"
FILES
/usr/local/bin/powerman
/usr/local/bin/pm
ORIGIN
PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux
clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms
of the GNU GPL.
SEE ALSOpowerman(1), powermand(8), httppower(8), plmpower(8), vpcd(8), power‐
man.conf(5), powerman.dev(5).
http://code.google.com/p/powerman
powerman-2.3.20 2014-08-26 powerman(1)
