NAME

       httppower - communicate with HTTP based power distribution units

SYNOPSIS

       httppower [--url URL]

DESCRIPTION

       httppower is a helper program for powerman which enables it to communicate with HTTP based
       power distribution units.  It is run interactively by the powerman daemon.

OPTIONS

       -u, --url URL
              Set the base URL.

INTERACTIVE COMMANDS

       The following commands are accepted at the httppower> prompt:

       auth user:pass
              Authenticate to the base URL with specified user and password, using ``basic'' HTTP
              authentication which sends the user and password over the network in plain text.

       seturl URL
              Set the base URL.  Overrides the command line option.

       get [URL-suffix]
              Send an HTTP GET to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended.

       post [URL-suffix] key=val[&key=val]...
              Send  an  HTTP POST to the base URL with the optional URL-suffix appended, and key-
              value pairs as argument.

FILES

       /usr/sbin/httppower
       /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

ORIGIN

       PowerMan was originally developed by  Andrew  Uselton  on  LLNL's  Linux  clusters.   This
       software is open source and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

SEE ALSO

       powerman(1),   powermand(8),   httppower(8),   plmpower(8),   vpcd(8),   powerman.conf(5),
       powerman.dev(5), powerman-devices(7).

       http://sourceforge.net/projects/powerman