Vnx-console-mgmt

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VNX Console Management

To be completed soon...

VNX Console Definition

...

  <global>

      <vm_defaults>
	    <console id="0" display="no"/>
	    <console id="1" display="yes"/>
      </vm_defaults>
  </global>

...
<vm name="h1" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux">
    ...
    <console id="0" display="yes"/>
    <console id="1" display="no"/>
    ...
</vm>

<vm name="h2" type="libvirt" subtype="kvm" os="linux">

</vm>

VNX Console Commands

Two commands are provided in VNX to manage virtual machine consoles: "--console", to open the consoles; and "--console-info" to show information about them.

Besides, two options are used to modify the behaviour of the commands: "--cid" to specify consoles identifiers (con0, con1, etc) and restrict the command to a specific console; and "-M" to specify a virtual machine or a list of virtual machines the command applies to.

  • Show information about the consoles of an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console-info
    
  • Open all the consoles enabled in an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console
    

    only the consoles with the 'display' attribute set to 'yes' are opened.

  • Open the first console of every virtual machine of an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console --cid con1
    

    When using the "--cid" option to identify a specific console, the consoles are opened independently of the value of the 'display' attribute.


  • Open the first console of a specific virtual machine of an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console 
    

    When using the "--cid" option to identify a specific console, the consoles are opened independently of the value of the 'display' attribute.



  • Show information about the consoles of an scenario:
  • sudo vnx -f scenario.xml -v --console-info