ITS Command Line Interface

The VSS CLI is a unified interface to manage your ITS Private Cloud services. It simplifies the interaction with the ITS Private Cloud API to manage your virtual machines. It's available to download in PyPI and package docs can be found here. To get started, install the package with "pip install vsscli" and then run "vss configure".

To try an existing install, SSH to vsscli-demo.eis.utoronto.ca and authenticate with your VSS userid and password or the web client available at https://cloud-cli.eis.utoronto.ca

SSH Access

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1. Open your terminal application and type ssh <vss-username>@vsscli-demo.eis.utoronto.ca
2. If this is your first time logging in, you should run vss configure to setup the environment.
3. To get familiar with the VSS CLI enter into shell mode by running vss shell which provides an auto-completion for commands and help.
   
   
   

Windows

1. Open your preferred terminal application like PuTTY and create a new session with the host vsscli-demo.eis.utoronto.ca
   
2. Accept the host key.
3. Type your VSS credentials
   
4. Successful login will present the following welcome message:
   
5. If this is your first time logging in, you should run vss configure to setup the environment.
6. To get familiar with the VSS CLI enter into shell mode by running vss shell which provides an auto-completion for commands and help.
   
   
   

Web Access

1. Open a web browser and go to https://cloud-cli.eis.utoronto.ca
2. Type your VSS credentials 
   
3. Successful login will present the following welcome message:
   
4. To start logging your activity and later download it, click on the Menu and select Start Log.
   
5. If this is your first time logging in, you should run vss configure to setup the environment.
6. To get familiar with the VSS CLI enter into shell mode by running vss shell which provides an auto-completion for commands and help.