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Scope of This Guide

This guide details the AutoShell, the CA Virtual Assurance CLI commands, and performance metrics. A glossary explains specific terminology used in virtualization technologies.

AutoShell is the central command-line interface of CA Virtual Assurance that you can use to automate complex recurring and management tasks. It 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 that also provides JavaScript functionality to the Mozilla Firefox web browser. This allows you to use JavaScript syntax directly in the AutoShell, for example, for displaying a directory listing.

This guide describes all AutoShell commands, examples, and best practices for this user interface.