Reference Card

We present here a number of frequently used commands. for a complete list, please use:

cms help

Shell invocation

Shell

Command

Description

cms help

help

cms man

manual pages

cms script.cm

execute cm commands in script

Shell basic commands

Shell

Command

Description

cms color on

sets the shell color

cms color off

switches off the color

cms set a=xyx

declares a variable

cms set username=cloudmesh.profile.username

reads the variable from the cloudmesh.yaml file

cms set time=now

gets the time and store it in the variable time

cms set debug=True

activates debug messages

cms set trace=True

activates traceback on an error to show which line of teh code the error occured

cms set verbose=10

set maximum verbosity for printing verbose debug messages

Cloud commands

Cloud

Command

Description

cms image list

list images

cms flavor list

list flavors

cms vm list

list vms

cms vm boot

boot vm

cms vm boot –cloud=aws

boots a vm on cloud aws

cms set cloud=aws

set the default cloud to kilo

cms set refresh=True

automatic refresh from the clouds

cms set refresh=Fasle

data is only read from the database.