Remote Power Types

Concepts

Remote Power Types represent a fence agent on the Cobbler end. They are responsible for making power operations possible inside Orthos for a certain machine. A remote Power Type is connected to one of the three available options to a given machine.

                                +-----+
                                |     |
                       +------->| BMC +------------------------------+
                       |        |     |                              |
                       |        +-----+                              v
+-------------------+  |        +---------------------+         +---------+
|                   +--+        |                     |         |         |
| Remote Power Type +---------->| Remote Power Device +-------->| Machine |
|                   +--+        |                     |         |         |
+-------------------+  |        +---------------------+         +---------+
                       |        +--------------+                     ^
                       |        |              |                     |
                       +------->| Remote Power +---------------------+
                                |              |
                                +--------------+

Remote Power Type fields description

Remote Power Type (required)

The name of the fence agent without the fence_ prefix.

Device

The type of fence agent this is. Must be one of “Remote Power Device”, “BMC” or “Hypervisor”.

Username

The default username for the remote power type.

Password

The default password for the remote power type.

Identity File

The identity file in case a key is needed to connect to the managed device. This field is translated into a filepath by the fence agent. As such locations given here must match the path on the Cobbler server.

Supported Architectures

If none is given, the remote power type is available to all architectures. Select one or more in case this should be limited to a set of architectures.

Supported Systems

If none is given, the remote power type is available to all systems. Select one or more in case this should be limited to a set of systems.

Use Port

Wether to use the additional port, instead of the standard hostname. This is useful for remotely switchable PDUs.

Use Hostname as Port

Wether to use the additional port and use the Machine hostname instead of the port integer. This is useful for systems that identify the target system by name.