Vimsh - help with its usage please?

[dinny]

Hiya,

I'm looking at scripting various things related to VI3 and I've seen lots of references in the forums to vimsh[/b]

I know from other posts that various things can be done using the options available under hostsvc/

I'm sure I'm just being really stupid - but I can't seem to find a way to list the various options under hostsvc/

Can anyone put me out of my misery please?

Cheers

Dinny

[christianZ · Accepted solution]

Have you seen this:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=543933

Well not mentioned was following:

#vimsh

$hostsvc/

[dinny]

Thanks very much,

I had seen that post and several similar ones.

The use of the TAB[/b] key to display the options for each subcommand was exactly the thing I was after.

Cheers

Dinny

[GavinJ]

Hi Dinny,

I've just released a white paper for usage of vimsh - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=81554&tstart=0 which might also help

Cheers

Gavin

[dinny]

Hi Gavin,

I'd be very interested - our proxy server seems to time out on your website - more than likely a problem at our end

I don't suppose you could email me a copy could you?

dinny.davies_at_littlewoods.co.uk

Cheers

Dinny

[GavinJ]

I've posted up on my website - http://www.xtravirt.com/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=75&func=select&id=3 - let me know if you have any problems downloading and I'll email to you.

Cheers

Gavin

[dinny]

Hiya,

I still have no access to http://www.xtravirt.com at all.

Almost certainly down to our proxy server...

If you could email me a copy that would be great.

On reflection if you could send it to:

dinny.davies_at_googlemail.com

then it can't be blocked by our overly enthusiasic email security team

(Failing that I'll try and download it tomorrow via my home broadband connection).

Dinny

[GavinJ]

Sorry Dinny, didn't read your last post properly - long day, 5.30am start this morning....

Have emailed it your google account.

Cheers

Gavin

[dinny]

Received with thanks,

Looks like a great resource.

Sorry I can only allocate six points.

Dinny

[dinny]

Hiya,

I have come across a problem using vimsh to enter maintenance mode in a HA cluster when VMs are running on the server.

I've created another question on the forum for it as I have no more points to award on this thread.

See:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=81717&tstart=0

Hope someone can help

Dinny