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.
