IPMI touch - ipmitool for your iPhone » power controls http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch unKompressed Perspective Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:38:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0 Soft shutdown http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/2011/05/soft-shutdown/ http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/2011/05/soft-shutdown/#comments Sun, 15 May 2011 14:27:27 +0000 http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/?p=458 Read more)]]> With version 1.3 of IPMI touch a couple of weeks away from public release it is time to take a look at some user-facing enhancement that are going to be included in this revision of the app. Let’s start with ACPI shutdown.

In addition to unconditional power on/off functionality currently implemented in the app, IPMI protocol provides a way to cleanly shutdown a machine (‘chassis power soft’ command in ipmitool). The action is equivalent to physically pushing server’s power button and should results in orderly or graceful shutdown if supported by OS.

The thinking behind not including soft shutdown originally was that if the server is up then there is a way to get to it (via remote desktop, SSH, VNC etc) to call normal shutdown and therefor the functionality is redundant. However, it is clear now that it is really convenient to have that option exposed in IPMI touch.

Below are two V1.3 screenshots showing new Soft-shutdown button and Soft-shutdown request in progress status message.

Soft-shutdown dialogSoft-shutdown in progress

]]> http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/2011/05/soft-shutdown/feed/ 4 Power Controls http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/2010/06/power-controls/ http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/2010/06/power-controls/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:44:42 +0000 http://www.yellowkompressor.com/ipmi-touch/?p=390 Read more)]]> The final piece of the puzzle for 1.2 update is now ready! IPMI touch development build gets power controls. We are going to spend a couple of days on integration testing and once that is done the update is going to be submitted for approval. As people say – a picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth a thousand pictures. Enjoy the demo :).

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