The Jarvice CLI by Nimbix, Inc. This consists of two components:

• Python API for programmatically accessing https://api.jarvice.com or another JARVICE API service
• jarviceclient, a command-line tool for calling the API

For more information and the full API documentation, see https://api.jarvice.com.

The easiest way to get set up:

Create ~/.jarvice.cfg with the following contents:

[auth]
username: username
apikey: apikey-from-portal

The JARVICE CLI

Installation

The easiest way to install is directly from PyPI

pip install --user jarviceclient

If the installation was successful, you should have an executable called jarvice_cli in your path after installing the jarviceclient package.

Interacting with Jobs

Launching a job

Launch a job from the portal and save the JSON to job.json. To launch it again, do the following:

jarvice_cli submit -j job.json

List a summary of your jobs

jarvice_cli summary

See the output/error of a currently running job

jarvice_cli tail -number <jobnumber>

See the output of a job that has ended

jarvice_cli output -number <jobnumber>

Get connection details (address, password)

jarvice_cli connect -number <jobnumber>

Cleanly shutdown a job (with shutdown signal)

jarvice_cli shutdown -number <jobnumber>

Force termination of a job (like kill -9)

jarvice_cli terminate -number <jobnumber>

Get the stats on your job

jarvice_cli info -number <jobnumber>

Get the status of your job

jarvice_cli status -number <jobnumber>

Perform a configured action on your job

jarvice_cli action -number <jobnumber> -action <action>

Get a list of currently running jobs

jarvice_cli jobs

Cleanly shutdown all currently running jobs

jarvice_cli shutdown_all

Force termination of a job (like kill -9)

jarvice_cli terminate_all

Wait for a job to end

jarvice_cli wait_for -number <jobnumber>

Data Management for JARVICE Storage Vault

The default is drop.jarvice.com, for the Nimbix public cloud

Upload

jarvice_cli download -drop <source> -local <destination> [-storage <vault name>]

Upload file or directory to drop.jarvice.com

jarvice_cli upload -local <source> -drop <destination>

Upload file or directory to an alternate vault

jarvice_cli upload -local <source> -drop <destination> -storage altvault.jarvice.com

List files on drop.jarvice.com

jarvice_cli ls or jarvice_cli ls -d <remote_dir>

List files on an alternate vault

jarvice_cli ls -d <remote_dir> -storage altvault.jarvice.com

Querying JARVICE Options

See the available apps and a schema describing inputs

jarvice_cli apps

Query available machine types

jarvice_cli machines

JarviceAPI

JarviceAPI contains a Client and AuthenticatedClient for interacting with a JARVICE API, defaulting to https://api.jarvice.com