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Leigh B Stoller authored
Lahey. Power saving turns off nodes that have been sitting in PXEWAIT (and are thus free) for more then a set amount of time (see sitevar general/idlepower_idletime, which defaults to 3600 seconds). The driver script is tbsetup/idlepower.in and needs to be added to /etc/crontab at sites that want to do this. Even so, operation is enabled by the sitevar general/idlepower_enable. Each time it runs, it checks for nodes that need to be turned off, and then calls power. Note: This should be a daemon not a cron job. To be considered for power saving, you must add an attribute to the node_type_attributes table called 'idlepower_enable', set to 1. Locally, I hacked up stated and power to make the state transitions legal so that stated does not whine. I added POWEROFF as a valid transition from any state, to opmodes NORMAL, NORMALv1, and NORMALv2. Barry's original patch already had a state transition for PXEKERNEL. In power, I added code to look at the actual operation, and in the case of "on", do not send an event if the node is not in POWEROFF, since a user can foolishly say power on anytime, and the node is on nothing is every going to change, and the state transition would be wrong. node_reboot takes of powering nodes on, when they are in POWEROFF. Barry on copyright issues: "I'm not sure those rights are mine to grant! Remember that this code came originally from Kevin Lahey (kml@patheticgeek.net) and originated at DETER (although he's apparently not there anymore). I don't foresee a problem from our point of view (but I'll double check, of course). Shall I try to contact Kevin try to sort this mess out, or do you think it's better to coordinate from your end?"
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