> Updated the Advanced Power topic on the manual:

> http://cobbler.github.com/manuals/2.2.3/5/6_-_Power_Management.html

> Let me know if that looks ok, or if you find any mistakes.

The documentation itself seems fairly good at a quick read.  However, this 
still seems to lose the pre-2.2.3 flexibility of providing arbitrary values on 
a per-system basis, whether via the power_id field or in some other new/better 
way.

First, though I might be missing something, I don't see a template way to parse 
the old power_id string "-P -T 4" into "lanplus" and "power_wait=4", since 
$power_id is a single variable.

Second, if you hard-code such values in a template, what happens if different 
systems need different values?  We have one old box with an iLO2 which requires 
a timeout change, but applying that change to ALL our boxes with iLO2 causes 
THEM to have problems.  In the case where only ONE value is variable I guess we 
can customize using power_id, but unless the previous item is wrong I don't see 
a way to have per-system values in general.

Third, again unless I'm missing something the answer isn't to have 
"power_system1" and "power_system2" and ... and "power_systemN" since the 
command is also based on the power_type, and there's no 
/usr/sbin/fence_system1, /usr/sbin/fence_system2, etc. mapping.

Regards,
Doug
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MC Linux Infrastructure, 970-898-4860, Fort Collins 3UR8 (MS 57)
"The best way to cope with change is to help create it."



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