Bright:Power config

Power Configuration

There are several methods that can be used to control power of the systems:

• PDU based Control
• IPMI based Control
• Custom Power Control
• HP iLO based Control

PDU based Control

For PDU-based power control, the power supply of a device is plugged into a port on a PDU. The device can be a node, but also anything else with a power supply, such as a switch. The device can then be turned on or off by changing the state of the PDU port.

To use PDU-based power control, the PDU itself must be a device in the cluster and be reachable over the network. The Settings tab of each device object plugged into the PDU is then used to configure the PDU ports that control the device. Figure 5.1 shows the Settings tab for a head node.