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NAME

       fence_ipmilan - Fence agent for IPMI over LAN

DESCRIPTION

       fence_ipmilan  is an I/O Fencing agent which can be used with machines controlled by IPMI. This agent calls support software using ipmitool
       (http://ipmitool.sf.net/).

       To use fence_ipmilan with HP iLO 3 you have to enable lanplus option (lanplus /	-P)  and  increase  wait  after  operation  to	4  seconds
       (power_wait=4 / -T 4)

       fence_ipmilan  accepts  options	on  the command line as well as from stdin. Fenced sends parameters through stdin when it execs the agent.
       fence_ipmilan can be run by itself with command line options.  This is useful for testing and for turning outlets on or off from scripts.

PARAMETERS


       -A     IPMI Lan Auth type (md5, password, or none)

       -a     IPMI Lan IP to talk to

       -p     Password (if required) to control power on IPMI device

       -S     Script to retrieve password (if required)

       -P     Use Lanplus

       -l     Username/Login (if required) to control power on IPMI device

       -o     Operation to perform. Valid operations: on, off, reboot, status, list, diag, monitor or metadata (Default Value: reboot)

       -t     Timeout (sec) for IPMI operation

       -C     Ciphersuite to use (same as ipmitool -C parameter)

       -M     Method to fence (onoff or cycle) (Default Value: onoff)

       -T     Wait X seconds after on/off operation (Default Value: 2)

       -f     Wait X seconds before fencing is started

       -v     Verbose mode

ACTIONS


       on     Power on machine.

       off    Power off machine.

       reboot Reboot machine.

       status This returns the status of the plug/virtual machine.

       diag
	       The operational behavior of this is not known.

       list   List available plugs with aliases/virtual machines if there is support for more then one device. Returns N/A otherwise.

       monitor
	      Check if fencing device is running. List available plugs/virtual machines or get status of machine (if it does  not  support  more).

       metadata
	       The operational behavior of this is not known.

STDIN PARAMETERS


       auth   IPMI Lan Auth type (md5, password, or none)

       ipaddr IPMI Lan IP to talk to

       passwd Password (if required) to control power on IPMI device

       passwd_script
	      Script to retrieve password (if required)

       lanplus
	      Use Lanplus

       login  Username/Login (if required) to control power on IPMI device

       action Operation to perform. Valid operations: on, off, reboot, status, list, diag, monitor or metadata (Default Value: reboot)

       timeout
	      Timeout (sec) for IPMI operation

       cipher Ciphersuite to use (same as ipmitool -C parameter)

       method Method to fence (onoff or cycle) (Default Value: onoff)

       power_wait
	      Wait X seconds after on/off operation (Default Value: 2)

       delay  Wait X seconds before fencing is started

       verbose
	      Verbose mode

fence_ipmilan (Fence Agent)					    2009-10-20							    FENCE_AGENT(8)