On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:55 PM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I need to write a script to power cycle some machines for a project I am > doing and all the PDU's I have found so far support telnet or ssh. I > was wondering if anyone has run across a PDU that has an API that you > can access via perl or a scripting language as that would be easier than > mimicing a ssh or telnet session. > If you only need 8 outlets or less, then these little units are pretty good, and are usually available on eBay for cheap (about $100): http://www.digital-loggers.com/lpc.html They have a web-based interface for interactive use, plus you can control outlets programmatically by constructing URLs like this (for example, to turn on outlet #3): http://login:passw...@switch/outlet?3=ON It doesn't get much easier than that... -Brent -- Brent Chapman <[email protected]> Netomata, Inc. -- www.netomata.com Making networks more cost-effective, reliable, and flexible by automating network configuration
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