NAME

httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

httppower [--url URL] [--header string] [--cookies] [--verbose]

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.
-H, --header string: Set extra HEADER to use.
-c, --cookies: Enable cookies in session.
-v, --verbose: Increase output verbosity.

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.
setheader [string data]: Set extra HEADER to use. Do not specify data to clear. Overrides the command line option.
cookies <enable|disable>: Enable or disable use of cookies. 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] <string data>: Send an HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and string data as argument. Typically, the data is key=value pairs (multiple of which can be concatenated with the &-symbol), but there can be exceptions.
put [URL-suffix] <string data>: Send an HTTP PUT to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and string data as argument.

FILES

/usr/sbin/httppower
/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.