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Scope of This Guide

This guide describes AutoShell, CA Server Automation CLI commands, and performance metrics. A glossary explains specific terminology used in virtualization technologies.

AutoShell is the central command line interface of CA Server Automation that you can use to automate complex recurring and management tasks. AutoShell provides a standalone JavaScript implementation for object orientation, XML and regular expression processing. AutoShell uses an out-of-the-box version of the Mozilla Spidermonkey JavaScript interpreter which also provides JavaScript functionality to the Mozilla Firefox web browser. The interpreter allows you to use JavaScript syntax directly in the AutoShell, for example, for displaying a directory listing.

This guide provides you all AutoShell commands, examples, and best practices of this user interface.