VSS Command Line Interface v0.4.1

VSSCLI v0.4.1 is available for download via PyPI or GitLab. Latest version includes the following improvements and bug fixes:

• New Features
  • New command vss status to provide the operational status and any upcoming maintenances of the VSS according to https://systemstatus.utoronto.ca
    

  • Set your preferred notification format (html or text) right from the command line vss account set notification format <html|text>:

    vss compute vm get notification format Expand source

    Usage: vss account get notification format [OPTIONS]
    
      Get notification format
    
    Options:
      --help  Show this message and exit.

    vss compute vm set notification format Expand source

    Usage: vss account set notification format [OPTIONS] FMT
    
      Update notification format where FMT can be html or text
    
    Options:
      --help  Show this message and exit.

    

  • Update your request notification preferences with the new command vss account set notification request:

    vss account set notification request Expand source

    Usage: vss account set notification request [OPTIONS]
    
      Customize request notification settings
    
    Options:
      -a, --all         Enable all request notification
      -n, --none        Disable all request notification
      -e, --error       Enable error notifications only
      -s, --submission  Enable submission notifications only.
      -c, --completion  Enable completion emails
      --help            Show this message and exit.

    
    

  • Opt-in or opt-out of weekly Messages digest with vss account set digest message 
    

    vss account set digest message

    vss account set digest message --help
    Usage: vss account set digest message [OPTIONS] STATE
    
      Opt-in or opt-out of weekly message digest
    
    Options:
      --help  Show this message and exit.

• Bug fixes

  • Fixed vss compute vm set <uuid> domain failed when executed. 

  • Fixed vss compute vm get <uuid> exception when VM does not exist.

Upgrade or install PyVSS as follows:

# from version 0.2.5 you can run
vss upgrade
# upgrade with pip
pip install vsscli --upgrade

# install
pip install vsscli

Docker images available: uofteis/vsscli:py27 and uofteis/vsscli:py36:

docker run -it -v /tmp:/data \
-e VSS_API_USER=user_here -e VSS_API_USER_PASS=user_pass_here \
-e VSS_DEFAULT_OUTPUT=json \
uofteis/vsscli bash

For more information, please refer to the official documentation site.