Photo: IP Power 9258
A little while ago, I picked up one of these units on eBay for around $125USD. I needed something that was slightly cheaper than the regular range of higher-end APC Masterswitch and had heard that this was an embedded Linux device. It is (though that doesn’t excuse the horrific web UI). This afternoon, I setup a new Real Time kernel test box and decided to get the fencing done right this time around – so I wrote a simple script. It allows one to do a few simple things: power on, power off, and report status:
[jcm@perihelion ~]$ ippower Usage: ippower <status> | <target> <command> TARGETS: perihelion apohelion power5 light COMMANDS: on off status [jcm@perihelion ~]$ ippower status perihelion: on apohelion: off power5: off light: off [jcm@perihelion ~]$ ippower apohelion on on [jcm@perihelion ~]$ ippower apohelion on unchanged [jcm@perihelion ~]$ ippower apohelion off off [jcm@perihelion ~]$ ippower status perihelion: on apohelion: off power5: off light: off
You can download my ippower fencing script if you would like to use it with a similar device.