NAME 

powerman - power on/off nodes

SYNOPSIS 

powerman [-option] [targets] pm [-option] [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 hostnames are mapped to plugs on RPC devices in

OPTIONS 

-1, --on
Power ON targets.
-0, --off
Power OFF targets.
-c, --cycle
Power cycle targets.
-r, --reset
Assert hardware reset for targets (if implemented by RPC).
-f, --flash
Turn beacon ON for targets (if implemented by RPC).
-u, --unflash
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
Query plug status of targets. If none specified, query 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.
-n, --node
Query node power status of targets (if implemented by RPC). If no targets specified, query all targets. In this context, a node in the OFF state could be ON at the plug but operating in standby power mode.
-b, --beacon
Query beacon status (if implemented by RPC). If no targets are specified, query all targets.
-t, --temp
Query node temperature (if implemented by RPC). If no targets are specified, query all targets. Temperature information is not interpreted by powerman and is reported as received from the RPC on one line per target, prefixed by target name.
-h, --help
Display option summary.
-L, --license
Show powerman license information.
-d, --destination 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.

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/sbin/powermand /usr/bin/powerman /usr/bin/pm /etc/powerman/powerman.conf /etc/powerman/*.dev

ORIGIN 

Developed by Andrew Uselton <useton2@llnl.gov> on LLNL's Linux clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms of the Gnu GPL.

SEE ALSO 

powermand(1) powerman.conf(5)