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

[Tom Childers]

Bruce has provided the interface info for PowerMan, and I've updated  
the one-pager. The relevant section now reads as follows:

4.0 Interfaces
  (see http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/interface-taxonomy/ 
  f
or details)
  4.1 Exported Interfaces

    Interface Name       Classification      Comments
    --------------------------- -------------------  
---------------------------
    /usr/bin/powerman     Volatile            client to power on/off  
nodes
    /usr/bin/pm (same)

    /usr/sbin/powermand   Volatile            power control &  
monitoring daemon

    /usr/sbin/plmpower    Volatile            helper program which  
enables
                                              communication with  
insteon/x10
                                              devices. powermand runs
                                              interactively with this  
helper
    man pages             Volatile
     /usr/share/man/man1/powerman.1
     /usr/share/man/man5/powerman.conf.5
     /usr/share/man/man5/powerman.dev.5
     /usr/share/man/man7/powerman-devices.7
     /usr/share/man/man8/powermand.8

  4.2 Imported Interfaces
    Interface Name       Classification       Comments
    --------------------------- --------------------  
--------------------------
    SUNWlibms            Committed
    /usr/lib/libm.so2
    Math & Microtasking
    Libraries


I'm extending the timer to Wednesday, December 10th. Please respond  
with any additional issues or comments by then.
-tdc


On Dec 1, 2008, at 9:26 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 
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