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px2_configure - deploy and configure Raritan PX2/PX3 power distribution units

px2_configure COMMAND [ARGUMENTS]

PX2 deployment and configuration utility.

Configure some or all devices (network settings, unit name and SNMP settings).

The behavior of this command is different depending on whether concrete IP addresses or the 'all' keyword is specified:

  • If IP addresses are specified the program will contact each device, read its serial number and search for a matching entry in the device list. It will then change the device's network settings to the values from the device list. The initial IP addresses do not have to match the values from the device list, they might as well be dynamically assigned by a DHCP server.
  • If the 'all' keyword is specified the IP addresses are taken from the device list. The devices' network settings are expected to be properly configured at this point, so the network configuration part will be skipped.
Verify device settings and SNMP access.
Identify some or all devices (show a distinctive string for two seconds in each unit's display).
Reboot some or all devices.
Fetch fitness data from some or all devices and write them to a file in CSV format.
Device firmware update. The firmware image will be sequentially uploaded to each device, then all devices will be instructed to perform the firmware update in parallel.
Print list of supported timezones with its IDs.
Set the timezone of all devices.

Device list in CSV format.
Device IP addresses; use 'all' to run on all IPs in the CSV file.
Device IP address.
Output file name.
Firmware image file.
Timezone ID as printed by the "print_timezones" command.

Connect to the device at 192.168.2.3, read its serial number and look it up in the device list file named devices.csv. Configure the device's network, PDU name and SNMP settings.
Verify the network settings, PDU name and SNMP access for all devices in the list file.
Update all devices to firmware version 2.1.6.

The device list file contains a list of PX2 devices in CSV format. It could e.g. be exported from an inventory spreadsheet. Each device line contains four or five fields, separated by commas:

1. Unit serial number (exactly 10 characters)
2. PDU name
3. IP address with prefix length (e.g. 192.168.99.1/24)
4. Gateway IP address
5. Optional comment; the line is ignored if "ignore" is included here

Lines with less than four fields are silently ignored. Likewise, lines that do not contain a valid serial number are disregarded.

The following Perl modules are required to run this script:

  • Raritan PX2 RPC bindings (distributed along with this script)
  • libwww-perl <https://metacpan.org/release/libwww-perl>
  • LWP::Protocol::https <https://metacpan.org/release/LWP-Protocol-https>
  • JSON <https://metacpan.org/release/JSON>
  • JSON-RPC-Common <https://metacpan.org/release/JSON-RPC-Common>
  • perl-Error <https://metacpan.org/release/Error>
  • Test-Simple <https://metacpan.org/release/Test-Simple>

Additionally, the verify command uses the snmpget utility to verify SNMP access.

2022-12-07 perl v5.36.0