4.7 Sneak Preview - vsctl Pt.2 Command Line Interface Status Commands by Eskil September 21, 2016 Howto
With Vidispine 4.7 you'll get a new and improved command line interface called vsvtl. vsctl can be used to inspect and control a running Vidispine server. It is targeted at operations and developers working with Vidispine. This is part 2 of this sneak preview.
All information and operations are performed using the API, so this can also be seen as an example on how to interact with Vidispine from Python. We have selected a few commands that we believe are of importance to you, and will slowly but steady continue to improve on the tool.
Usage Let's start with an overview of everything you can do with vsctl. Just run the command without any arguments to see the full help, and you'll get this list.
Usage: vsctl [SWITCHES] [SUBCOMMAND [SWITCHES]] args... Meta-switches: --help Prints this help message and quits --help-all Print help messages of all subcommands and quit -v, --version Prints the programs version and quits Switches: -a, --auth VALUE:str Vidispine user (and password); the default is admin:admin --color Always print colored output --debug Print HTTP requests and responses -h, --host VALUE:str Vidispine server host; the default is localhost:8080 Subcommands: audit Query the audit log; see vsctl audit --help for more info find Find items matching keywords or query; see vsctl find --help for more info health Show current Vidispine health; see vsctl health --help for more info import Import files by path or by direct upload; see vsctl import --help for more info indexing View reindex status; see vsctl indexing --help for more info jobs Show job status; see vsctl jobs --help for more info property Manage configuration properties; see vsctl property --help for more info service Manage services; see vsctl service --help for more info stats Display various internal statistics; see vsctl.py stats --help for more info status Show current Vidispine status; see vsctl status --help for more info storage Displays the status of storages in Vidispine; see vsctl.py storage --help for more info test Show current Vidispine selftest status; see vsctl.py test --help for more info threads Print stack trace from Vidispine; see vsctl threads --help for more info
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Usage:
vsctl [SWITCHES] [SUBCOMMAND [SWITCHES]] args...
Meta-switches:
--help Prints this help message and quits
--help-all Print help messages of all subcommands and quit
-v, --version Prints the programs version and quits
Switches:
-a, --auth VALUE:str Vidispine user (and password); the default is admin:admin
--color Always print colored output
--debug Print HTTP requests and responses
-h, --host VALUE:str Vidispine server host; the default is localhost:8080
Subcommands:
audit Query the audit log; see vsctl audit --help for more info
find Find items matching keywords or query; see vsctl find --help for more info
health Show current Vidispine health; see vsctl health --help for more info
import Import files by path or by direct upload; see vsctl import --help for more info
indexing View reindex status; see vsctl indexing --help for more info
jobs Show job status; see vsctl jobs --help for more info
property Manage configuration properties; see vsctl property --help for more info
service Manage services; see vsctl service --help for more info
stats Display various internal statistics; see vsctl.py stats --help for more info
status Show current Vidispine status; see vsctl status --help for more info
storage Displays the status of storages in Vidispine; see vsctl.py storage --help for more info
test Show current Vidispine selftest status; see vsctl.py test --help for more info
threads Print stack trace from Vidispine; see vsctl threads --help for more info
Below we'll present a few of the commands in more detail. This is second part of the vsctl blog post, and you can find the first vsctl post here.
System status The status command displays a high level overview of the activity and the status of resources, jobs and storages.
Storage status The status command will list any offline storage and the storage errors. Details on the storages can be seen using the storage command.
System statistics Vidispine server exposes system metrics using StatsD, JMX and on the metrics resource on the admin port. Here we use watch to continuously poll and display the latest statistics.
Open for suggestions The vsctl is very much open for suggestions, so if you have any suggestions on commands or arguments that would be useful to you, then please don't hesitate to get in contact with us. A very good way to make suggestions is to use our support portal and add a new ticket of the type Suggestion .
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