1. Reference Card (proposed)

1.1. Shell

Shell
Command Description
cms help help
cms man manual pages
cms script.cm execute cm commands in script

1.2. Shell commands that expire after a session

Shell
Command Description
cms color on sets the shell color
cms color off switches off the color
cms refresh on automatic refresh from the clouds
cms refresh off data is only read from the database. Useful for managing thousands of VMs or limit your access to the cloud.
var a=xyx declares a variable
var username=cloudmesh.profile.username reads the variable from the cloudmesh.yaml file
var time=now gets the time and store it in the variable time

1.3. Clouds

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=kilo boot vm on cloud kilo
cms default cloud=kilo set default cloud to kilo
cms select image select interactively the default image (not implemented yet).
cms select flavor select interactively the default flavor (not implemented yet).
cms select cloud select interactively the default cloud (not implemented yet).

1.4. Comet

1.5. HPC

HPC
Command Description
cms help Help
cms hpc queue <batch> info about the queue <batch>
cms hpc info information about the queues on the HPC resource
cms hpc run uname -a runs the command uname
cms hpc run list prints the ids of previously run jobs
cms hpc run list prints the ids of previously run jobs
cms hpc run list 11 prints the information regarding the job with the id 11