ITP: powerman -- Centralized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) management

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

* Package name: powerman
Version: 2.3
Author: The Regents of the University of California.
            Produced at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
            Written by Andrew Uselton <[email protected]>
                           Jim Garlick <[email protected]>
                           Al Chu <[email protected]>
                           Chris Dunlap <[email protected]>
* URL             : http://powerman.sourceforge.net
* License: GPL 2+
Description     : Centralized Power Distribution Unit (PDU) management

 PowerMan is a tool for manipulating Power Distribution Units (PDUs) from a
 central location. It is suitable for remote operation in data centers or
 compute cluster environment.
 .
 Several RPC varieties are supported natively by PowerMan and
 Expect-like configurability simplifies the addition of new devices.
 .
 This package includes support for Genders, HTTP devices and Curses user
 interface.


Side notes:
- I'm in touch with the upstream maintainer (Jim Garlick),
- a new release is scheduled with some fixes planned, following my recent audit,
- a client library (libpowerman) will soon be available, to allow the
remote manipulation of a Powerman daemon,
- an integration of this library is underway in the Network UPS Tools.

cheers,
Arnaud
-- 
Linux / Unix Expert R&D - MGE Office Protection Systems - http://www.mgeops.com
Network UPS Tools (NUT) Project Leader - http://www.networkupstools.org/
Debian Developer - http://people.debian.org/~aquette/
Free Software Developer - http://arnaud.quette.free.fr/