Managing the plug-in appliance

Use the ibm-vm utility to manage appliance VM tasks such as reboot, shutdown, and password change.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the vSphere plug-in appliance as root.
  2. Use the ibm-vm command to reboot, shutdown, and change the password.
    For example, 
    [~]# ibm-vm --help
           Run this command to reboot, shutdown, update operating system packages, or to change the root password of the appliance VM.
Syntax: ibm-vm [-r|--reboot|-s|--shutdown|-p|--password|-u|--update|-h|--help]
Options:
-r|--reboot    Reboot the VM.
-s|--shutdown  Shutdown the VM.
-p|--password  It will change the password of the VM.
-u|--update    Update packages on your system.
               Note: It will only update the operating system packages, not the plugin.
-h|--help Print this Help.