UvA HPC course 2021-01-22
Extras - The XML-RPC API
This is an exercise from the Extras part of the Tutorial UvA HPC course 2021-01-22.
In this advanced part of our HPC Cloud tutorial we ask you to play around with the XML RPC API.
a) Setting up a VM for the exercise
Exercise: start a new VM (you are now in the advanced part; you should be able to do this on your own)
b) Run a first example
This exercise should make you familiar with our general documentation pages.
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On our general documentation, find the Getting started with the XML-RPC page.
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Follow the instructions to prepare your Python environment with the Python bindings for the API, on the VM you prepared on the previous section.
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Run the first example from that documentation page. Make sure you are able to see the API version number as a result.
Food for brain:
- What version does the API reply with?
c) Run a second example
- Run the example from the presentation that shows a list of your VMs.
Food for brain:
- Can you now modify the VM list to show only the running VMs?
- Can you make a program that will shutdown all your VMs but leaving intact the one you are running the program from?