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NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower  is  a  helper  program  for  powerman  which  enables  it to
       communicate with HTTP  based  power  distribution  units.   It  is  run
       interactively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
              Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
              Authenticate  to  the base URL with specified user and password,
              using ‘‘basic’’ HTTP authentication which  sends  the  user  and
              password over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
              Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
              Send  an  HTTP  GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix
              appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
              Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the  optional  URL-suffix
              appended, and key-value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

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