Discussion: Playing with our node with telnet

Telnet access is to administrate the hosting service, and nothing more.

The list command lists the current contracts. The status command gives a current view of the entire hosting service state. Each status line shows a dotted object ID (oid) and some value. This approach has been inspired by SNMP. For a description of the oids used by the hosting service, see the class org.jtrix.project.cluster.facet.Oids.

In the example above we create a new contract which is given an ID, and then issue a command to manage that contract. In fact all we do is check the status of that particular contract. Then we quit the contract control command line and quit the telnet interface.

Other commands can be found with the help command, and we use some of these in the hello world examples.