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NAME

       powerman.dev - PowerMan device specification files

DESCRIPTION

       PowerMan  device  specifications are rather wierd.  For this reason, we
       suggest that you leave the writing of these  scripts  to  the  PowerMan
       authors.  However, if you insist, here is how they work.

       Note:  the  authors  do  not  guarantee that the PowerMan specification
       language will not change, however we are open to taking on  maintenance
       of  scripts submitted by PowerMan users.  We can’t guarantee that we’ll
       be able to test new releases against all devices but we’ll do our  best
       not  to break anything.  NOTE: the best way to help us in this endeavor
       is to provide a ‘‘simulator’’ for your power controller and  associated
       tests  in  the  test subdirectory of the powerman source code.  See the
       examples in that directory.

       By convention, device scripts are one device per file and are  included
       as needed from a powerman.conf file, like this:

              include "/etc/powerman/icebox3.dev"

       A device script is surrounded by an outer block:

              specification "my_device_name" {
                  # configuration settings
                  # script blocks
              }

       The possible configuration settings are:

       timeout <float>
              (optional)  device  script  timeout in seconds - applies to each
              script, the whole thing, not just a particular "expect".

       plug name { <string list> }
              (optional) if plug names are static,  they  should  be  defined.
              Any reference to a plug name in the powerman.conf must match one
              of the defined plug names.

       pingperiod <float>
              (optional) if a  ping  script  is  defined,  and  pingperiod  is
              nonzero,  the  ping  script will be executed periodically, every
              <float> seconds.

       Script blocks have the form:

              script <script_name> {
                  # statements
              }

       Script blocks should all be grouped together with no  config  lines  in
       between.   Scripts  are  for  performing  particular operations such as
       power on, get power status, etc.  The various script names  are  listed
       below.   Those marked with [%s] are called with a plug name "argument",
       which can be included in a send statements by including  a  %s  (printf
       style).   Warning:  all  the send strings are processed with printf and
       you can cause powermand to segfault if you include  any  printf  tokens
       other than the appropriate zero or one %s.

       login  Executed  immediately  on (re-)connect.  If you need to login to
              the box, do it here.  This is  also  a  good  place  to  descend
              through  a  first  layer  of  menus.   Caveat:  %  occurring  in
              passwords must be escaped as  %%.   Caveat:  occurs  outside  of
              client  session  so  cannot  be  debugged with -T.  A trick when
              debugging  is  to  move  this  code  into  the   status   script
              temporarily so you can see what is going on.

       logout Executed  prior  to  disconnect.  Get device in a state so login
              script will work (though hopefully disconnecting  will  do  that
              too).

       status_all, status[%s]
              Obtain  plug  state  for  all  plugs or only the specified plug.
              When all plugs of a device are involved in a plug status  query,
              the  status_all script, if defined, will be called in preference
              to the status script; otherwise the status script is called  for
              each plug.

       on_all, on_range[%s], on[%s]
              Power on all plugs, a range of plugs, or the specified plug.

       off_all, off_range[%s], off[%s]
              Power off all plugs, a range of plugs, or the specified plug.

       cycle_all, cycle_range[%s], cycle[%s]
              Power  cycle all plugs, a range of plugs, or the specified plug.
              The intent of this  command  was  to  map  to  the  RPC’s  cycle
              command;  however,  device  script are increasingly implementing
              this in terms of a power off/delay/power so the off time can  be
              controlled by the script.

       status_soft_all, status_soft[%s]
              Obtain  soft  power  state  for  all plugs or only the specified
              plug.  Soft Power refers to the "standby state" of the node.  On
              means  the  node  is  powered  up.  Off means either the node is
              powered off at the plug or is powered on  at  the  plug  and  in
              standby  mode.   This  is  really  only  useful  on devices that
              include both a plug relay and a probe into the node attached  to
              a non-standby power source.

       status_temp_all, status_temp[%s]
              Obtain  temperature  reading for all plugs or only the specified
              plug.  Temperature is obtained by sampling a thermocouple in the
              node.   Results  are reported as a text string - not interpreted
              by Powerman beyond any regex chopping done by the script.

       status_beacon_all, status_beacon[%s]
              Obtain beacon state for all plugs or only  the  specified  plug.
              Some RPC’s include a way to flash a light on a node.

       beacon_on[%s]
              Flash beacon on the specified plug.

       beacon_off[%s]
              Clear beacon on the specified plug.

       reset_all, reset_range[%s], reset[%s]
              Reset  all  plugs, a range of plugs, or only the specified plug.
              Reset refers to signaling a motherboard reset butten header, not
              a plug cycle.

       Within a script, the following statements can be used:

       send <string>
              Send <string> to the device.

       delay <float>
              Pause script for <float> seconds.

       expect <string>
              <string>  is  compiled  as a regular expression with regcomp(3).
              The regular expression is matched  against  device  input.   The
              script  blocks  until the regex is matched or the device timeout
              occurs (in which case the script is  aborted).   Upon  matching,
              any parenthesized expressiones are assigned to variables: $1 for
              the first match, $2 for the second match, and so  on.   Warning:
              some  implementations  of  regex(3) silently fail if the regular
              expression exceeds available static storage.

       setplugstate    [<string>|<regmatch>]     <regmatch>     [off=<string>]
       [on=<string>]
              Set the plug state.  The first  argument,  if  present,  is  the
              literal plug name or a <regmatch> from the previous expect which
              contains the plug name.  If omitted, the plug name  is  presumed
              to  be the script argument.  The off and on strings are compiled
              regexes, which if matched by the second argument, result in  the
              plug  state being set to off or on.  Yes we are applying regexes
              to regmatches!  If no off or on strings are provided, state will
              be unknown.

       ifoff, ifon
              Script   statements   enclosed   in   an  ifon/ifoff  block  are
              conditional executed based on the state of the plug passed in as
              an  argument.  Ifon/ifoff blocks can only be used in single plug
              scripts that take an argument.

       foreachplug
              Script statements enclosed in a foreachplug block  are  executed
              iteratively  with  a  %s  argument defined for each target plug.
              Foreachplug blocks can only be used in  all  plug  scripts  that
              take no argument.

       Script terminals are  defined as follows:

       <float>
              decimal number - exponent forms not supported

       <string>
              Text   surrounded   by  double  quotes.   May  contain  C  style
              backslash-escaped  characters,  including  three   digit   octal
              values,  and  most  common  backslash-escaped  single  character
              values.

       <string list>
              Multiple <string> values separated by white space.

       <script_name>
              Name of script (see above).

       <regmatch>
              Results of a parenthesized regular expression match are assigned
              to $1, $2, ... $N.

FILES

       /etc/powerman/*.dev

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 ALSO

       powerman(1),    powermand(8),   httppower(8),   plmpower(8),   vpcd(8),
       powerman.conf(5), powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman