Running plugins on the MOC (ppc64le direct)

Overview

This page documents some pfcon related commands for executing plugins on the Massachusetts Open Cloud by talking directly to pman and pfioh exposed on a specific PPC64 machine for testing purposes.

Service access

Set the access IP to the machine running pfcon

export HOST_IP=localhost

Call

pfurl --verb POST --raw \
      --http ${HOST_IP}:5005/api/v1/cmd \
      --httpResponseBodyParse \
      --jsonwrapper 'payload' \
      --msg \
'{  "action": "internalctl",
    "meta": {
                "var":     "/service/mocppc64",
                "set":     {
                    "compute": {
                        "addr": "128.31.28.109:5010",
                        "baseURLpath": "api/v1/cmd/",
                        "status": "undefined",
                        "authToken": "{Bu7H)FyWp{,e<"
                    },
                    "data": {
                        "addr": "128.31.28.109:5055",
                        "baseURLpath": "api/v1/cmd/",
                        "status": "undefined",
                        "authToken": "{Bu7H)FyWp{,e<"
                    }
                }
            }
}'

Set an optional proxy if in a proxied network:

pfurl --verb POST --raw \
      --http ${HOST_IP}:5005/api/v1/cmd \
      --httpResponseBodyParse \
      --jsonwrapper 'payload' \
      --msg \
'{  "action": "internalctl",
    "meta": {
                "var":     "/self",
                "set":     {
                     "httpProxy": {
                        "httpSpec": "http://proxy.tch.harvard.edu:3128",
                        "use":  true
                    }
                }
            }
}'

Test with a hello

pfurl --verb POST --raw --http ${HOST_IP}:5005/api/v1/cmd   \
        --httpResponseBodyParse --jsonwrapper 'payload' --msg \
'{  "action": "hello",
    "meta": {
                "askAbout":     "sysinfo",
                "echoBack":      "Hi there!",
                "service":       "mocppc64"
            }
}'

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