StarTech.com ECS0016 manual Pmpower

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As a reminder to the reader, some shells will interpret brackets ([ and ]) for pattern matching. Depending on your shell, it may be necessary to enclose ranged lists within quotes. For example, in tcsh, the last example above should be executed as:

powerman --on “foo[0,4-5]”

pmpower

The pmpower command is a high level tool for manipulating remote preconfigured power devices connected to the gateway either via a serial or network connection.

pmpower [-?h] [-l device -r host] [-o outlet] [-u username] [-p password] action

-?/-h This help message.

-l The serial port to use.

-o The outlet on the power target to apply to

-r The remote host address for the power target -u Override the configured username

-p Override the configured password

on	This action switches the specified device or outlet(s) on
off	This action switches the specified device or outlet(s) off

cycle This action switches the specified device or outlet(s) off and on again

status This action retrieves the current status of the device or outlet

Examples:

To turn outlet 4 of the power device connected to serial port 2 on:

# pmpower -l port02 -o 4 on

To turn an IPMI device off located at IP address 192.168.1.100 (where username is ‘root’ and password is ‘calvin’:

# pmpower -r 192.168.1.100 -u root -p calvin off

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