This is a python program to issue basic power commands to a Dell Poweredge Server via a Telegram bot. I came up with it because I host my Plex server on an ancient Dell PowerEdge and don't need it to be online all the time but would still like to boot it remotely. First i was using the Internet router's built-in VPN functionality, but then the router started to randomly decide to turn the VPN off. So here we are. I now have a Raspi sitting on top of my server and running that Telegram bot to control the aforementioned server. Works perfectly so far.

• Docker
• docker-compose

Create a settings.env file that defines the parameters given in settings.default.env

• MANAGE_IP is the ip of the idrac interface
• SERVER_USERNAME/SERVER_PASSWORD have to be credentials for the idrac interface
• SERVER_IP is the ip of the OS when the server is up
• TELEGRAM_OWNER_ID is the telegram User ID of the owner account
• DELUGE_USERNAME/ DELUGE_PASSWORD are credentials for a deluge account as described here

[Optional] If you want to override the defaults for the values defined in default.env you can do so by creating a file called .env and define the values you want in there. These env variables are used in the docker-compose.yml file. Currently the following variables are defined in that way:

• MAIN_DNS & FALLBACK_DNS are the ip adresses of 2 DNS servers

run the bot with docker-compose up --build -d

The bot only provides a few commands as of now, the naming of which should explain enough about what they do:

Basically all torrent related functionality becomes obsolete once one starts using Radarr/Sonarr and a reverse proxy... D;

[1] Suggestions for a better name? anyone?