fence_bladecenter(8)

NAME
fence_bladecenter - I/O Fencing agent for IBM Bladecenter

SYNOPSIS
fence_bladecenter [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION
fence_bladecenter is an I/O Fencing agent which can be used with IBM Bladecenters with recent enough firmware that includes telnet support. It logs into a Brocade chasis via telnet and uses the command line interface to power on and off blades. fence_bladecenter accepts options on the command line or from stdin.

OPTIONS

-a IPaddress
    IP address of the Bladecenter.

-h  Print out a help message describing available options, then exit.

-l login
    Login name for the Bladecenter.

-n blade
    The blade to operate on.

-o action
    The action required. Valid actions are on, off, reboot (default) and status.

-p password
    Password for login.

-S path
    Full path to an executable to generate the password for login.

-q  Quiet mode: print only error messages.

-V  Print out a version message, then exit.

-v debuglog
    Log the telnet session to debuglog for debugging purposes.

STDIN PARAMETERS

agent = < param >
    This option is used by fence_node(8) and is ignored by fence_bladecenter.

ipaddr = < hostname | ip >
    IP address or hostname of the switch.

login = < param >
    Login name.

option = < param >
    The action required. disable (default) or enable.

passwd = < param >
    Password for login.

passwd_script = < param >
    Full path to an executable to generate the password for login.

blade = < param >
    The blade to operate on.

debuglog = < param>
    Optional parameter to send debug transcript of the telnet session to a log file

SEE ALSO
fence(8), fence_node(8)