Surgient Success

I have been trying to use commandrun in vcsadmin.exe without success. Although I can get a list of available commands with commandlist and learn all sorts of interesting things about said commands with commandshow, I have been unable to execute any of them. I consistantly get an error message stating that "There was a problem: 00050010 There is no command named WHATEVER registered with the system." I cannot seem to find the proper format. I have tried the following with and without quotes, equal sign, using both the name and ID of the VM:

commandrun JFS3QESX008 "Surgient.Linux.ESX.stop" vm=1207fcaf-e9e3-7645-e69d-eb4cad1b63

 Can someone please explain the format of this command?

Thanks

The vm parameter is not a valid parameter for that command.  The correct parameter is "agentguid".   I would be careful with that command as it stops the Surgient Agent and you can interfere with the proper operation of the system that way.  Can we help you with a specific task you're trying to accomplish?

Not sure what else you've tried, but the example you have above is using an incorrect command name - the command is named "stop vm", not "stop".  In all cases where the command name contains a space, you must put quotes around the entire command name.

This should work:

 commandrun JFS3QESX008 "Surgient.Linux.ESX.stop vm" vm=1207fcaf-e9e3-7645-e69d-eb4cad1b63

 The short name also works:

commandrun JFS3QESX008 "stop vm" vm=1207fcaf-e9e3-7645-e69d-eb4cad1b63

Hope this helps.

There's more than one "stop", e.g. "stop vm" and "stop agent" I wasn't sure which command he was referring to with just "stop".  'Stop vm' accepts a vm parameter and 'stop agent' accepts an agentguid parameter.  Since the parameter was a guid I assumed this was stop agent.

I believe this is the format I am seeking. Thanks. I was trying to stop a hung VM from vcsadmin.