com.novell.zos.jdl
Class VMHostInfo

java.lang.Object
  com.novell.zos.jdl.GridObjectInfo
      com.novell.zos.jdl.VMHostInfo

public class VMHostInfo
extends GridObjectInfo

The VmHostInfo class is a representation of a VM host grid object. This class provides accessors and setters to the Vm Host facts and operations to control the state of the VM host object.

Example to retrieve an existing instance of a VmHostInfo and initiate a soft shutdown on it.

      vmhost = getMatrix().getGridObject(TYPE_VMHOST,"MyVmHost")
      vmhost.shutdown()
 

Method Summary

void	discoverVMs() Start a discovery operation for this Vm Host.
void	shutdown() Initiate a soft shutdown of this Vm host.
void	shutdown(boolean hard) Shutdown this Vm host specifying a hard or soft shutdown.
void	start() Initiate a start action on this Vm host.

Methods inherited from class com.novell.zos.jdl.GridObjectInfo

deleteFact, factExists, getFact, getFactLastModified, getFactNames, refresh, setArrayFact, setBooleanArrayFact, setDateArrayFact, setDateFact, setFact, setIntegerArrayFact, setRealArrayFact, setStringArrayFact, setTimeArrayFact, setTimeFact

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

shutdown

public void shutdown()

Initiate a soft shutdown of this Vm host.

This will softly shutdown any running VMs on this host and put the Vm Host in a state of not accepting provisioning actions. A soft shutdown will wait for the agent to be idle.

shutdown

public void shutdown(boolean hard)

Shutdown this Vm host specifying a hard or soft shutdown.

This will shutdown any running VMs on this host and put the Vm Host in a state of not accepting provisioning actions.

Parameters:

hard - true to shutdown hard, false to initiate a soft shutdown. A hard shutdown is immediate (no migration, agent idle wait, etc)

start

public void start()

Initiate a start action on this Vm host.

Enable the Vm Host as ready for provisioning actions.

discoverVMs

public void discoverVMs()

Start a discovery operation for this Vm Host.

This action can create and delete VM's, reset attributes on VMs, delete the referenced VmHost and mark an existing VM as needing to be re-synced.