PowerMan 2.3 [LSARC/2008/734 FastTrack timeout 12/4/2008]

[James Carlson]

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.

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