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/local/sbin/httppower
/usr/local/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.