---
name: "powermand"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "powerman"
version: "2.4.4-4"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/powermand"
---

# powermand(8)

power control and monitoring daemon

## NAME

powermand - power control and monitoring daemon

## SYNOPSIS

**powermand** *\[-options\]*

## DESCRIPTION

**powermand** provides power management in a data center or compute cluster environment.

## OPTIONS

- *-c, --conf filename*

  Override the default location of the powerman configuration file */etc/powerman/powerman.conf.*

- *-s, --stdio*

  Talk to a client on stdin/stdout rather than listening for network connections. This is useful for testing new configurations, since the powerman client protocol is friendly to humans.

- *-Y, --short-circuit-delay*

  Ignore all device script delay statements.  This is useful for testing with simulated devices, where the delays slow down testing for no benefit.

- *-d, --debug mask*

  Set mask for debugging output.

- *-h, --help*

  Provide a synopsis of the command options.

- *-V, --version*

  Display the powerman version number and exit.

## FILES

/usr/sbin/powermand\
 /etc/powerman/powerman.conf

## ORIGIN

PowerMan was originally developed by Andrew Uselton on LLNL's Linux clusters. This software is open source and distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL.

## SEE ALSO

[**powerman**(1)](/powerman/1.md), [**powermand**(8)](/powermand/8.md), [**httppower**(8)](/httppower/8.md), [**plmpower**(8)](/plmpower/8.md), [**vpcd**(8)](/vpcd/8.md), [**powerman.conf**(5)](/powerman.conf/5.md), [**powerman.dev**(5)](/powerman.dev/5.md).

**http://github.com/chaos/powerman**