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charliechamp
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How do I shut down VMs and ESXi4.1 from API

We have just installed server room monitoring equipment. If the termperature is raised in the server to a certain level this equipment will send out emails and text messages, should the temperature still increase I want it to be able to shut down the VM's and ESXi environment.

It has software to connect to windows hosts so I could shut the VMs down that way but I will still have a problem with shutting down the ESXi environment.

The other way I was thinking was to connecting to VMA, send commands to shut down the vms and then send a command to shut down the ESXi boxes.

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charliechamp
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Is there a way I can set this up? If you look at the attachment you will see it uses telnet to connect to Linux systems. I am not sure how this will connect to the VMA to send commands? Any Ideas appreciated.

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