[Testbed-admins] Issue with setup of power controller and power cycling node

[Adit Ranadive <adit262@cc.gatech.edu>]

Hello,

I'm one of the administrators for the Emulab setup at Georgia Tech.
We recently have done an overhaul of the system by installing the newer
version of emulab.
We are some issues with the setup of the power controller and being able 
to power cycle the node.

We have a RPC10 power controller which is similar to a RPC27.
For the setup of the power controller I followed the instructions in the 
doc/setup-archive/setup-serial-and-power.txt file.

We dont have a different tipserv and are using the ops machine to store 
the logs. The capture scripts are setup on ops. The power controllers 
are connected on ops using serial ports. We also have different terminal 
servers for the nodes so haven't setup the capture scripts for the nodes.

Also, entries are made into nodes (for powerctrl), tiplines (for 
powerctrl), outlets (for nodes).

This is the line in the capture.sh script:

/usr/testbed/sbin/capture -T 15 -r -s 9600 power0 /dev/cuad0 >/dev/null 
2>&1 &

These are the outputs from the console and power cycle scripts:

ops> console power0
*** /usr/testbed/bin/console:
    /usr/testbed/bin/script_wrapper.py failed

boss> power cycle pc1
Use of uninitialized value in pack at /usr/testbed/lib/power_rpc27.pm 
line 381.
*** Cannot connect to power0 on ops.(my.domain.name)(0)
*** Could not form TIP connection to power0
Control of pc1 failed.
pc1 now rebooting

Any idea if I need to anything else to the database/capture scripts?

Thanks,
Adit