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l, pressing TAB a second time will list the possibilities. This is particularly useful when specifying object
UUIDs in commands.
Note:
When executing commands on a remote XenServer host, tab completion does not normally work. However
if you put the server, username, and password in an environment variable called XE_EXTRA_ARGS on the
machine from which you are entering the commands, tab completion is enabled. See the section called
“Basic xe syntax” for details.
Command types
Broadly speaking, the CLI commands can be split in two halves: Low-level commands concerned with listing
and parameter manipulation of API objects, and higher level commands for interacting with VMs or hosts
in a more abstract level. The low-level commands are:
• <class>-list
• <class>-param-get
• <class>-param-set
• <class>-param-list
• <class>-param-add
• <class>-param-remove
• <class>-param-clear
where <class> is one of:
• bond
• console
• host
• host-crashdump
• host-cpu
• network
• patch
• pbd
• pif
• pool
• sm
• sr
• task
• template
• vbd
• vdi
• vif
• vlan