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