P(8) P(8)
NAME
P - activate power switch
SYNOPSIS
P system ...
apc/genpwrdb system ...
DESCRIPTION
P power cycles a system attached to a power switch. Cur-
rently P only knows how to operate WTI and APC switches with
telnet (see con(1)) access and Cyberpower switches with C(1)
access. The systems attached are defined in a series of
ndb(6) files named consoledb.powersw, where powersw is the
name of the power switch. Currently there are no access
controls. Power switch entries are of the form Consoles are
defined by entries of the form:
type=wti
power=shelf428
...
Each power/type/system association represents a machine
system on switch power with type type. Currently there is no
coordination between the instances of P.
For APC power strips. apc/genpwrdb maybe used to generate a
data base from the current power strip configuration.
FILES
/lib/ndb/powerdb.sysname Power databases.
SOURCE
/rc/bin/P
/rc/bin/apc/genpwrdb
BUGS
A file server for coordination would be helpful.
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