{"id":220,"date":"2015-10-29T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.haxed.me.uk\/?p=220"},"modified":"2015-10-29T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T14:43:10","slug":"resetting-meta-data-of-a-rax-rackspace-xen-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haxed.me.uk\/index.php\/2015\/10\/29\/resetting-meta-data-of-a-rax-rackspace-xen-server\/","title":{"rendered":"Resetting Meta data of a RAX Rackspace Xen Server"},"content":{"rendered":"

At work we had some customers complaining of metadata not being removed on their servers.<\/p>\n

\r\n\r\nnova --os-username username --os-password apigoeshere meta uuidgoeshere delete rax:reboot_window\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
It was pretty simple to do as a one liner right.<\/p>\n
But imagine we have a list.txt full of 100 servers that need clearing for an individual customer, that would be a nightmare to do manually like above. so we can do it like:<\/p>\n
\r\nfor server in $(cat list.txt); do nova --os-username username --os-password apikeygoeshere meta $server delete rax:reboot_window; done\r\n<\/pre>\n
Now that is pretty cool. And saved me and my colleagues a lot of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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