Yes, the list of available options is built dynamically with
glob.glob("/usr/sbin/fence_*") so adding new checks is transparent and
automatic. That in itself is a major improvement over the way it was.
On May 7, 2012 10:26 AM, "Mann, Owen" <[email protected]> wrote:

> A power status indicator would be pretty darn neat.
> As for custom power management types, I've added "power_type" to
> "USES_SELECT" in field_info.py. Will the custom types get added to the list
> of choices automatically?
>
> Owen Mann, Interactive Data Real Time Services
> 60 Codman Hill Rd, Boxborough, MA 01719
> 978-795-3758 [email protected]
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> On Sun, May 6, 2012 at 11:52 PM, James Clendenan <
> [email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi James,
> >
> > That power stuff is unfortunate timing for me.  I actually just had to
> > build a set of new power script to handle the HP bladesystem C-7000's
> > for a group who didn't have ILO and weren't able to use any of the
> > existing fence modules available.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how I might be able to preserve their functionality
> > of being able to define custom power templates?
> >
> > Also, any thoughts from the community on being able to poll systems
> > for power status via the power commands?  (ie ipmitool power status )
> > and then present it as a green / red light?
>
> Yes, the way around this is to symlink your script to
> /usr/sbin/fence_yourname and make sure it accepts parameters on STDIN
> rather than via command line arguments and you should be fine.
>
> There is a power status check currently, though apparently it may need
> some work as even the fence_* commands don't return consistent output.
> At some point, I would like to add a simple status check to the web GUI.
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