fence_ipmilan(8)

NAME
fence_ipmilan - I/O Fencing agent for machines controlled by IPMI over LAN.

SYNOPSIS
fence_ipmilan [OPTION]...

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/). fence_ipmilan accepts options on the command line as well as from stdin. fenced sends the options through stdin when it execs the agent. fence_ipmilan can be run by itself with command line options which is useful for testing.

OPTIONS

-a IPaddress
    IP address or hostname of the IPMI controller.

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

-l login
    Login (if required) with administrative privileges.

-o option
    Action to perform (on, off, reboot).

-p password
    Password (if required) for login.

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

-P  Use the lanplus option if this is a lanplus capable interface (for example iLo2)

-A Authentication Type
    Can be set to none, password, md2, or md5.

-q  Quiet operation. Only print out error messages.

-V  Print out a version message, then exit.

-v  Verbose mode.

STDIN PARAMETERS

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

login= < param >
    Login (if required) with administrative privileges.

option = < param >
    Action to perform (on, off, reboot).

passwd = < param >
    Password (if required) for login.

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

auth = < param >
    Authentication type (none, password, md2, md5).

lanplus
    If we are using the lanplus option for ipmitool

SEE ALSO
fence(8), fence_node(8)