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¶
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¶
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.