Statelesx 1.1.0 Released!

Yes yes, hard to believe but we have had a great response from the initial release from people all over the globe, including some improvements that we thought should go in straight away!

In this release, we have added:

- hosts that contact the appliance via the python script now are placed into an "unregistered hosts" section, making it very easy to add them to clusters (ie no more typing in hostname and UUID)

- hosts that are defined in clusters can be configured via a single button click in the web UI, so no python script is needed on the host. Yes, that means you can now configure ESXi boxes. You still need VirtualCenter though, and it's obviously not a completely hands off process since you still need a single button click to initiate the configuration, but we're working on that.

- web interface now located at http://[IP.Address.of.Appliance]/

Credentials are the same as the initial release (root / root for console, statelesx / statelesx for web interface). The new md5 sum is:

98aaea31137048338a547a56dd2a65c2 statelesx-1.1.0-ovf.zip

The python script also has a minor update, now 2 parameters are sent across:

#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
import re
import sys
#Open esx.conf, read only
esxconf = open("/etc/vmware/esx.conf", "r")
#Define regular expressions
getName = re.compile("/adv/Misc/HostName.=.(.*)")
getUUID = re.compile ("/system/uuid.=.(.*)")
#Search esx.conf for matches
for line in esxconf.readlines():
    hostname = getName.findall(line)
    for name in hostname:
        name = name.strip('"')
    UUID = getUUID.findall(line)
    for uuid in UUID:
        uuid = uuid.strip('"')
#Close esx.conf
esxconf.close()
#Define statelesx server address, port and msg
host = sys.argv[1]
port = 1974
msg = name + ":" + uuid
#Open socket
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
#Connect socket
s.connect((host,port))
#Send msg
print "Sending " + msg
s.send(msg)
# Close socket
s.close()


We hope you enjoy this release, feel free to mail us with any feature requests / bug reports or leave them in comments section of this post!