[racktables-users] Re: Locate LED
- From: Simon Kainz <simon.kainz@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: racktables-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:37:52 +0200
Denis Ovsienko wrote:
>> Yes, I use the ipmitool tool :-) to set led stati. My question was
>> rather as how/where to include this in RT? I mean to get a
>> button/checkbox/whaterver on the properties panel of my Server object.
>
> The simplest way is to add a dedicated IPMI tab for that, for that you'd need
> to look into navigation.php and add a couple of functions there: one (look
> for samples in interface.php) to render a panel with a "fire" button (and
> with some radios or whatever is needed), and another (samples in
> ophandler.php) to handle the pressing of that button. The latter function
> would actually call the ipmitool to do something.
>
> And, if you'd want it to look more consistently, you'd need to register a
> third function (trigger), which would tell, if your IPMI panel works with a
> particular object or not. Then the tab would be only displayed where it makes
> use (and not on every switch, patch panel and so).
>
> Once you finish that, you can put all that into local.php and your addon will
> likely survive RackTables upgrades (and you can put it into contribs
> directory of RackTables, if you want).
>
> --
> Denis Ovsienko
>
Hmm, this sounds like te way to go! I will take a look in the files you
mentioned.
Thank you very much!
--
DI Simon Kainz
Graz, University of Technology
Department Computing
Phone: ++43 (0) 316 / 873 6885
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