Reference Card

Shell

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

Shell commands that expire after a session

Shell
Command Description
cm color on sets the shell color
cm color off switches off the color
cm refresh on automatic refresh from the clouds
cm 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

Clouds

Cloud
Command Description
cm image list list images
cm flavor list list flavors
cm vm list list vms
cm vm boot boot vm
cm vm boot –cloud=kilo boot vm on cloud kilo
cm default cloud=kilo set default cloud to kilo
cm select image select interactively the default image (not implemented yet).
cm select flavor select interactively the default flavor (not implemented yet).
cm select cloud select interactively the default cloud (not implemented yet).

HPC

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