Eaton Remote Control

(Only tested on Eaton G3 ePDU Switched)

Eaton G3 Managed PDUs offer remote control via a webgui. However, the lower end tiers do not offer a management API and their CLI is quite to use. This project is a Python wrapper for the webgui, offering a CLI interface. It can also be used in other Python projects.

The Eaton configuration can be given via CLI or a config.yaml file (see config.example.yaml)

It relies on Node for the authentication script (shark_gen.js)

Examples

Turn B1 off: python3 -m eaton -c ./config.yaml outlet B1 off --yes-i-am-sure

Under the hood

For the authentication subsystem, the shark.js library from Eaton is reverse engineered. Most functions have been replaced by Python equivalents, implemented in response_gen.py Only the MD5 hash function hasn't been reverse engineered (yet) as it doesn't give the same results as Pythons hashlib md5.

Testing the response generation

The response generation is fully tested with unittest and coverage:
coverage run -m unittest -v