Re: [PATCH] Power control

> Direct IPMI / iLO support in conserver would be a huge plus. About half
> of my consoles now are iLO VSPs glued together with expect scripts.

I'm using IPMI with conserver via a wrapper script that hides the
passwords (because users can apparently dump conserver.cf :) and
incorporates a few Black Magic Workaround Tricks (tm) to get the IPMI
connection working.

Here's a patch vs. 8.1.17, including the 'conserver-exec' script and its
config file, plus some packaging changes to better fit the
RedHat+kerberos5  environment over here. (The same script can also run
telnet or, with a little modification, anything else, but we don't have
iLO so no support for that at the moment.)

https://cern.ch/ahorvath/rpms/conserver/8.1.17/cern.6/conserver-8.1.17-cern.6.diff

Since we're also using IPMI for remote power control of nodes it would
be cool to see that integrated into conserver. (But we also have some
remote-controlled power bars, and other things, so a generic executable
hook would be best.)

Andras

ps. I'm actually writing up what we're doing and how and, if you guys
are interested, I can post the link once done.

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Andras HORVATH
Systems engineer, CERN CF FPP
Tel: +41 22 767 4290 // Fax: +41 22 766 9154