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Usable as a command line tool and interactive shell
Management server profiles: select, customize and use different server profiles using
All commands are lowercase unlike API
Api Discovery using sync feature, with build time api precaching for failsafe sync
Raw api execution support
Auto-completion via double <tab>
Reverse search using Ctrl+R
Emacs compatible keybindings
Pipeable output
Unix shell execution
Support to handle async jobs using user defined blocking or non-blocking way
Tabular or JSON output with filtering of table columns
Colored output
Unicode support
Api parameter value completion

NOTE: Version 6.x+ wiki has moved here https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/wiki, for usage see https://github.com/apache/cloudstack-cloudmonkey/wiki/Usage

cloudmonkey 5.x requires Python 2.6 or above and has following dependencies:

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The following configuration parameters can be configured by using the 'set' command in cloudmonkey:

Key	Purpose	Default
profile	Management server profile name	local
url	Management server API url (it should contain full url with protocol, port etc and paths)	http://localhost:8080/client/api
timeout	Timeout interval for polling async commands	3600
apikey	User api key	""
secretkey	User secret key	""
verifysslcert	Enables/Disables SSL certification verification when making HTTP calls (per server profile)	true
username	CloudStack user name	admin
password	CloudStack user password	password
color	Enable coloured output, set to false to disable	true
prompt	cloudmonkey prompt	>
display	Line based, JSON, or tabular output, set to default or json or table	default
log_file	Log file	~/.cloudmonkey/log
history_file	History file	~/.cloudmonkey/history
asyncblock	Poll for async commands, making it false will cause cloudmonkey to return jobid	true
paramcompletion	Tries to predict api for listing a parameter value for an api, experimental may fail	true

Note: If both username/password and apikey/secretkey are set (i.e. have non-empty values), apikey and secretkey are used while making HTTP API calls.

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