Purpose of this document

These scripts are designed to:

• Manage start/stop guests at server boot with services and customized shutdown commands:

  • Automatic start of the guests (virtual machines) at Linux server boot

  • Clean shutdown of the guests at CHARON server shutdown

  • Clean shutdown of one guest at will using customized shutdown scripts (using 'ssh', 'expect' or any customized tool)

   

• Monitor the CHARON guests log file

  • Alert on removal of the license dongle

  • Send alerts for all INFO, WARN and ERROR messages found (depending on the error level setting)
    
    

• Alert on license approaching termination

  • Number of days before expiration alert is sent can be customized
    
    

• Provide menu driven options like:

  • Start/stop guests (virtual machines)

  • Connection to guests console

  • Display license contents, gather license content and update (send C2V and apply V2C files)

  • Send configuration and log files by email

  • Edit configuration files

  • Gather CHARON server information: Hardware, Operating System, Storage, Network interfaces, CHARON version, Utilities version