added a first, early prototype of the emulator CLI
diff --git a/emuvim/cli/__main__.py b/emuvim/cli/__main__.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 756ff89..0000000
--- a/emuvim/cli/__main__.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-"""
- For now only a dummy client. Connects to the zerorpc interface of the
- emulator and performs some actions (start/stop/list).
-
- We will provide a full CLI here later on which looks like:
-
- cli compute start dc1 my_name flavor_a
- cli network create dc1 11.0.0.0/24
-"""
-import time
-import pprint
-import zerorpc
-
-
-def main():
-    pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
-    print "Example CLI client"
-    # create connection to remote Mininet instance
-    c = zerorpc.Client()
-    c.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:4242")
-
-    # do some API tests
-    print c.compute_action_start("dc2", "d1")
-    print c.compute_action_start("dc2", "d2")
-
-    time.sleep(1)
-    print c.compute_list("dc2")
-
-    time.sleep(1)
-    pp.pprint(c.compute_status("dc2", "d1"))
-    pp.pprint(c.compute_status("dc2", "d2"))
-
-    time.sleep(5)
-
-    print c.compute_action_stop("dc2", "d1")
-    print c.compute_action_stop("dc2", "d2")
-
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
-    main()
diff --git a/emuvim/cli/compute.py b/emuvim/cli/compute.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b75b043
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emuvim/cli/compute.py
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+"""
+son-emu compute CLI
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import pprint
+import zerorpc
+
+
+pp = pprint.PrettyPrinter(indent=4)
+
+
+class ZeroRpcClient(object):
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.c = zerorpc.Client()
+        self.c.connect("tcp://127.0.0.1:4242")  # yes, hard coded for now. we'll change this later
+        self.cmds = {}
+
+    def execute_command(self, args):
+        if getattr(self, args["command"]) is not None:
+            # call the local method with the same name as the command arg
+            getattr(self, args["command"])(args)
+        else:
+            print "Command not implemented."
+
+    def start(self, args):
+        r = self.c.compute_action_start(
+            args.get("datacenter"), args.get("name"))
+        pp.pprint(r)
+
+    def stop(self, args):
+        r = self.c.compute_action_stop(
+            args.get("datacenter"), args.get("name"))
+        pp.pprint(r)
+
+    def list(self, args):
+        print "TODO: Not implemented"
+
+    def status(self, args):
+        print "TODO: Not implemented"
+
+
+parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='son-emu compute')
+parser.add_argument("command", help="Action to be executed.")
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--datacenter", "-d", dest="datacenter", help="Data center.")
+parser.add_argument(
+    "--name", "-n", dest="name", help="Compute name.")
+# TODO: IP, image, etc. pp.
+
+
+def main(argv):
+    args = vars(parser.parse_args(argv))
+    c = ZeroRpcClient()
+    c.execute_command(args)
diff --git a/emuvim/cli/network.py b/emuvim/cli/network.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0c50dda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emuvim/cli/network.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+"""
+son-emu network CLI
+"""
+
+
+def main(argv):
+    print "This is the son-emu network CLI."
+    print "Arguments: %s" % str(argv)
diff --git a/emuvim/cli/son-emu-cli b/emuvim/cli/son-emu-cli
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..57ae053
--- /dev/null
+++ b/emuvim/cli/son-emu-cli
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+"""
+ Simple CLI client to interact with a running emulator.
+
+ The CLI offers different tools, e.g., compute, network, ...
+ Each of these tools is implemented as an independent Python
+ module.
+
+ cli compute start dc1 my_name flavor_a
+ cli network create dc1 11.0.0.0/24
+"""
+
+import sys
+import compute
+import network
+
+
+def main():
+    if len(sys.argv) < 2:
+        print "Usage: son-emu-cli <toolname> <arguments>"
+        exit(0)
+    if sys.argv[1] == "compute":
+        compute.main(sys.argv[2:])
+    elif sys.argv[1] == "network":
+        network.main(sys.argv[2:])
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    main()