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[George Reese <george.reese@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this and a number of other suggestions. I am giving them a try.

Just a note though: some of the things that appear to work are inconsistent with other server actions in structure (os-stop vs. pause vs. os-start vs. reboot).

-George

On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 10:50 -0500, George Reese wrote:
>> I must be missing something, but I can't find any docs on how to suspend or stop a VM via API.
>> 
>> Any pointers, please? :)
> 
> Try 'nova --debug pause $instance'
> 
> Shows e.g.
> 
>  POST /v2/$tenant/servers/$instance/action HTTP/1.1
>  Host: $host:8774
>  Accept: application/json
>  Content-Length: application/json
>  Content-Type: text/html
>  x-auth-project-id: demo
>  x-auth-token: $token
> 
>  {"pause": null}'
> 
>  HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
> 
> It's an API extension, not part of the core API, and AFAIK they're not
> so well documented.
> 
> Mark.
> 

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