Thanks for the help. I'll work on making these changes. Bruce
On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:26 AM, James Carlson wrote: > Bruce Rothermal writes: >> Lets see if I can explain this better and you all can let me know how >> much of this to put in the questionare. >> >> Powerman consists of a client and server process for the purpose of >> consolidating power management (turn systems on and off as found in a >> lab environment or remote unmanned dark equipment rooms). A user >> would > [...] > > That explains what it does, but not what the interfaces are, which was > the previous question: > >> On Nov 26, 2008, at 10:14 AM, James Carlson wrote: >> >>> Danek Duvall writes: >>>> So in all of this, there's no description of what powerman actually >>>> *is*. >>> >>> It centralizes control of power control units, often used in a lab, >>> much in the way conserver centralizes console servers. >>> >>>> Or what the interfaces are. >>> >>> Good point. > > The interfaces provided by this project are empty. Worse still, the > project (as documented) claims to "import" an interface called > "Powerman," but it can't do that as there's no other project (ARC > case) that exports it ... this is the project that *defines* it, so it > can't import it. > > Your fast-track sponsor should have helped with this part. To give > you some help here (rather than playing fetch-a-rock), here's a > _guess_ at the sorts of interfaces this project might be exporting: > > Interface Stability Comments > --------- --------- -------- > /usr/bin/powerman Committed binary location > powerman Volatile command line arguments and output > /usr/bin/pm Committed symlink to `powerman' > /etc/powerman/ Committed directory > /etc/powerman/powerman.conf > Committed file location > powerman.conf Unstable file syntax > *.dev Project Private control files in /etc/powerman/ > svc:/network/powerman Committed SMF FMRI for server > /usr/lib/powermand Project Private daemon > /usr/lib/httppower Project Private connector for HTTP-based PDUs > /usr/lib/plmpower Project Private connector for Insteon/X10+PLM 2412S > /var/run/powerman/ Project Private local state storage > > (Guessing based by what I see in SourceForge.) > > The imports would likely be the protocols used by those PDUs, and I'm > not sure how to classify them. They're probably Unstable. > > -- > James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com > > > Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 > 2084 > MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 > 1677
