Patent ID: 8918449

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for managing a cloud-computing server with a terminal user-interface client: obtaining a command input from a terminal user-interface, wherein the command input comprises a server-executable instruction, and a node tag, and wherein the node tag identifies at least one agent node on a server in the cloud-computing platform, and wherein the terminal user-interface client comprises a command-line interface that accepts the command input and the node tag as input from user; passing the command input to the at least one agent node on the server identified by the node tag; obtaining a command execution result from the at least one agent node if a specified criterion is satisfied; formatting the command execution result for display with the terminal user-interface, wherein the command execution result comprises a aggregated result of the at least one agent node command execution statistics; counting a number of servers that failed to execute the command input; and pushing the number of servers that failed to execute the command input to the terminal user-interface.