Bug 723078

Summary:	RFE: Matahari Shell for sysadmin and scripting usage
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	Perry Myers <pmyers>
Component:	matahari	Assignee:	Zane Bitter <zbitter>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Dave Johnson <dajohnso>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.3	CC:	matahari-maint, rbryant, whayutin
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:	Matahari 0.6.0 includes a preliminary version of a Python API and command-line shell.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	723077
Clones:	771692 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2012-06-20 13:47:53 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	723077
Bug Blocks:	756082, 771692

Description Perry Myers 2011-07-19 00:40:56 UTC

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #723077 +++

Description of problem:
To use matahari agents/apis you need to presently either:
* Write your own QMFv2 Console
* Use qmf-tool

It would be more user friendly if we developed a shell tool (mataharish or mhsh) that provides easily scriptable and interactive access to the mh APIs and agents available on the QMF bus.

This shell could be written utilizing the python QMFv2 console classes.  While we want the agents to be as low level as we can (C++ impementations on C libraries mostly), writing the shell in python would be quicker and easier to extend dynamically.

Comment 3 Zane Bitter 2012-04-26 08:27:29 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Matahari 0.6.0 includes a preliminary version of a Python API and command-line shell.

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2012-06-20 13:47:53 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2012-0844.html