--- /dev/null
+#!/usr/bin/python
+# Module: VNET+
+# Description:
+# Connect to the node manager
+# Author: acb@cs.princeton.edu/sapanb@cs.princeton.edu
+
+import sys
+import os
+
+from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy
+
+homedir=os.environ['HOME']
+slice_name = homedir.rsplit('/')[0]
+
+nodemanager = ServerProxy('http://127.0.0.1:812/')
+try:
+ nodemanager.SetLoans(slice_name, [])
+except:
+ print "[FAILED] SetLoans didn't work, probably because the packets of this connection are not getting tagged.\n";