Automatic VM Retrieve

Sync-Retrieve is tool that allows the user to retrieve all VMs in all physical machines in the platform. It consists in a script that does the retrieve that can be configured easily with crontab to launch it periodically

Setting up the environment - Use in CentOS 6

Installing ruby

# yum install ruby

Installing dependencies

# gem install bundler
# bundle install

Using the script

Parameters

The parameters needed to use the script are the following

1. Username and Password from your AbiquoPlatform

2. URL from the API that we want to modify

Options

• -u --user

  • user:password - E.g: admim:admin

• -s --url

  • URL from the API - E.g: https://192.168.54.25/api/admin/datacenters

Usage example

# ruby vm-retrieve.rb -u admin:admin -s https://192.168.54.25/api/admin/datacenters

Usage with crontabExamples with crontab

If crontab is not installed yet run command

# yum install vixie-cron

Enable the package on boot and start

# /sbin/chkconfig crond on

# /etc/init.d/crond start

Its necessary to add lines to /etc/crontab file

If we want to retrieve VM each hour:

0 */1 * * * /path-to-script/vm-retrieve.rb  parameters

If we want to retrieve VM each 30' :

0,30 * * * * /path-to-script/vm-retrieve.rb  parameters

License

This script is licensed under the Beerware License further details, see the LICENSE file.

For comments and support: albert.navarro[at]abiquo.com