[Users] Fwd: ovirt cli commands / script wont exit the shell

[Yaniv Kaul]

On 10/09/2012 12:15 AM, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
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> On 10/08/2012 10:26 PM, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
>> On 10/08/2012 11:17 PM, Alex Leonhardt wrote:
>>> Aha - cool - thanks! :)
>>>
>>> Now, I was also looking at the REST API - is there a simple shell 
>>> based way to read / query the resulting XML ? Or would you suggest 
>>> to write python scripts to e.g. start/stop instance, get a list of 
>>> VMs / their IDs, etc. ?
>>
>> If you are already planning on Python, why not use the SDK instead of 
>> doing REST?
>> some examples @ http://wiki.ovirt.org/wiki/Testing/PythonApi
>> Y.
>>
> Hi Yaniv,
>
> thanks - had a quick look - is the PyAPI able to get the current usage 
> of the VMs (e.g. Memory/CPU/etc. usage) - it's the main reason (for 
> monitoring & trending) that I need this ..
>
> Thanks!
> Alex
>

It does. The SDK is auto-generated from the REST interface so you can 
get the statistics sub-collection and use it.
Y.
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