Re: [PATCH] Power control

The apc7900 is reasonable at about $420us for 8 ports; has a serial and
ethernet ports, and a reasonable (scriptable) CLI avilable via the
serial line or telnet (ssh too, I think) and a digital current readout.
I like 'em.

For home use, if you have the time to make it work, search for X10.  Way
cheaper.

For modern, server class PCs, try ipmi.

Cheers,
Brian


Rich Holland <holland@guidancetech.com> wrote:

> Somewhat off topic, but has anyone modded a power strip so it's outlets
> could be remotely controlled, or are you all using pre-purchased power
> strips with serial interfaces?  The ones I've looked at are way too
> expensive for home use....I'd like something I could use to remote-reboot my
> systems with at home when I'm traveling, but it's not worth $1k or more.  :)
> 
> Rich Holland
> Principal Consultant
> Guidance Technologies, Inc. 
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>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: users-bounces@conserver.com [mailto:users-bounces@conserver.com] On
> Behalf Of Bill Peck
> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 4:31 PM
> To: Christopher Fowler
> Cc: users@conserver.com
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Power control
> 
> Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > I did this a while back with our version of 7.X.  Instead of it
> > executing an external power command it send a message to a daemon that
> > was responsible for chatting with various power strips.  The problem
> > with supporting different vendors of strips is that they each have their
> > own access method. 
> Yes, I'm using our fence scripts from our cluster product to do the work 
> of talking to the different power strips.  Did you ever post your 
> patches for inclusion?  I just want power control from conserver and to 
> not have to maintain a patch going forward. :-)
> 
> > The powerd daemon was responsible for knowing what
> > strip was on what serial power and would char with the strip to execute
> > the power command.  To the user it was off,on,and reboot.  Regardless if
> > you were using APC, Baytech, etc.  As long as powerd had support for
> > that model of strip then you could control it via conserver.
> >
> > I did add a feature that would make sure that the user had R/W on the
> > console and power control capability on the console.  If not they were
> > sent a message from conserver that they did not have sufficient rights
> > to control power on that device.
> >
> > Being able to control power from console is an amazing benefit.  I've
> > used it many times to rescue systems in trouble.
> >
> >
> >   
> 
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