In all our anxiousness to get the statelesx 1.0.0 appliance out, we totally forgot to post up the client initiator script! So here it is:
#!/usr/bin/python
import socket
import sys
import re
#Open esx.conf, read only
esxconf = open("/etc/vmware/esx.conf", "r")
#Define regular expressions
getUUID = re.compile ("/system/uuid.=.(.*)")
#Search esx.conf for matches
for line in esxconf.readlines():
UUID = getUUID.findall(line)
for uuid in UUID:
uuid = uuid.strip('"')
#Close esx.conf
esxconf.close()
#Define statelesx server address (from argument), port and msg
host = sys.argv[1]
port = 1974
msg = 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()
Just drop that onto your fat ESX 3.5 box and run it as one of the last startup scripts.