FENCE_AGENT(8)
NAME
fence_bladecenter - Fence agent for IBM BladeCenter
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 or ssh and uses the command
line interface to power on and off blades.
fence_bladecenter accepts options on the command line as well as from
stdin. Fenced sends parameters through stdin when it execs the agent.
fence_bladecenter can be run by itself with command line options. This
is useful for testing and for turning outlets on or off from scripts.
Vendor URL: http://www.ibm.com
PARAMETERS
- -o, --action=<action>
- Fencing Action (Default Value: reboot)
- -a, --ip=<ip>
- IP Address or Hostname This parameter is always required.
- -l, --username=<name>
- Login Name This parameter is always required.
- -p, --password=<password>
- Login password or passphrase
- -S, --password-script=<script>
- Script to retrieve password
- -c, --command-prompt=<prompt>
- Force command prompt (Default Value: system>)
- -x, --ssh
- SSH connection
- -n, --plug=<id>
- Physical plug number or name of virtual machine This parameter is always required.
- -k, --identity-file=<filename>
- Identity file for ssh
- -4, --inet4-only
- Forces agent to use IPv4 addresses only
- -6, --inet6-only
- Forces agent to use IPv6 addresses only
- -u, --ipport=<port>
- TCP port to use for connection with device
- -v, --verbose
- Verbose mode
- -D, --debug-file=<debugfile>
- Write debug information to given file
- -V, --version
- Display version information and exit
- -h, --help
- Display help and exit
- -C, --separator=<char>
- Separator for CSV created by operation list (Default Value: ,)
ACTIONS
on Power on machine.
off Power off machine.
reboot Reboot machine.
status This returns the status of the plug/virtual machine.
- 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
action Fencing Action (Default Value: reboot)
ipaddr IP Address or Hostname This parameter is always required.
login Login Name This parameter is always required.
passwd Login password or passphrase
- passwd_script
- Script to retrieve password
- cmd_prompt
- Force command prompt (Default Value: system>)
- secure SSH connection
- port Physical plug number or name of virtual machine This parameter
- is always required.
- identity_file
- Identity file for ssh
- inet4_only
- Forces agent to use IPv4 addresses only
- inet6_only
- Forces agent to use IPv6 addresses only
- ipport TCP port to use for connection with device
- verbose
- Verbose mode
- debug Write debug information to given file
- version
- Display version information and exit
- help Display help and exit
- separator
- Separator for CSV created by operation list (Default Value: ,)