VM Multi Action

Selecting VMs

From the Web-UI

The experiment must be started; click on the experiment name to enter the Running Experiment component. Within that component, click on the checkbox adjacent to the VM Name column to select all the VMs. Alternatively, the checkbox adjacent to a specific VM name can be used to select the VM. Once one or more VMs are selected, a toolbar will appear to the left of the search text box. The buttons on the toolbar are essentially the same as described in VMs.

From the Command Line Binary

Not applicable.

Searching for VMs

The search text box can be used to filter the list of VMs to only apply actions to the filtered list.

From the Web-UI

The experiment must be started; click on the experiment name to enter the Running Experiment component. Within that component, use the search textbox to find VMs by:

• state - The keywords running,shutdown,paused,capturing can be used to find VMs in a specific state. Also, the not keyword can be used to negate search term(s) (i.e. not running)

• ipv4 address - VMs in a specific subnet can be found by entering the subnet (i.e 192.168.2.0/30)

• other fields (i.e. name, taps, tags) - All other fields will be searched for a keyword contained within the field

• combine search terms - Search terms can be combined by using or and keywords. Parenthesis can also be used to group search terms.

• escape keywords - To find keywords that appear in a VM name use double quotes. For example, to find a VM named free_running, type "running".

Example

Multiple search terms

From the Command Line Binary

Not applicable.

Starting/Stopping Packet Captures

From the Web-UI

When a valid ipv4 subnet is entered, the play button adjacent to the IPv4 label will be enabled. To start capturing, press the play button.

Once there are valid captures, the stop button adjacent to the play button will be enabled. To stop all the catpures, press the stop button.

To stop all packet captures for all subnets, the term capturing can be entered in the search bar to find all the VMs with active packet captures.

From the Command Line Binary

To start packet captures on running VMs for a specific subnet, use the following command.

phenix vm capture start-subnet <experiment name> <subnet>

To stop all packet captures for a specific subnet, use the following command.

phenix vm capture stop-subnet <experiment name> <subnet>

To stop all packet captures for an experiment, use the following command.

phenix vm capture stop-all <experiment name>

Stopped Experiment Component

Similar to the Running Experiment component, multiple VMs can be selected for the Stopped Experiment component. In addition, VMs in the Stopped Experiment component can be searched by:

• state - The keyword dnb can be used to find all VMs with the do not boot flag set to true. Also, the not keyword can be used to negate search term(s) (i.e. not dnb)

• ipv4 address - VMs in a specific subnet can be found by entering the subnet (i.e 192.168.2.0/30)

• other fields (i.e. VM, host, disk)

• combine search terms - Search terms can be combined by using or and keywords. Parenthesis can also be used to group search terms.

• escape keywords - To find keywords that appear in a VM name use double quotes. For example, to find a VM named dnb_me, type "dnb".