Virtual systems

These commands can be used to find, update, reboot and shutdown virtual systems. Most of them take the following parameters to control which system or systems to operate on :

  • --host hostname
    Can be given multiple times to specify systems by name.
  • --group groupname
    Specifies systems that are members of the named group.
  • --type code
    Matches systems of some virtualization type, which can be one of xen , vservers , zones or real
  • --os code
    Matches systems known to be running some OS, specified by a code like centos , solaris , redhat or ubuntu.
  • --all-hosts
    Always matches all registered systems.