Command Line Interface CLI Actions
- 03 Jun 2022
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Command Line Interface CLI Actions
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Command Line Interface (CLI) Actions
openRemoteCLI
Open an SSH connection to a remote system.
Property | Value | Description |
host* | text, expression, variable | the remote host name or address |
port | expression, variable | the remote port (default: 22) |
user* | text, expression, variable | the username for remote host |
password* | password, string, expression, variable | the password for remote host |
options | expression, variable | the value of the ciphers (allowed encryption algorithms), macs (allowed hashing algorithms), or whether to allow debugging to facilitate troubleshooting (debug: true) |
returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |
session = openRemoteCLI("host1.acme.org", 22, "root","password")
close(session)openRemoteCLIWithCert
Open an SSH connection to a remote system using public/private key authentication.
Property | Value | Description |
host* | text, expression, variable | the remote host name or address |
port | expression, variable | the remote port (default: 22) |
user* | text, expression, variable | the username for remote host |
privateKey* | text, expression, variable | the path of the private key file within the project file store or the private key loaded as a byte array |
publicKey | text, expression, variable | the path of the public key file within the project file store or the public key loaded as a byte array (default: none) |
passPhrase | password, string, expression, variable | the passPhrase for private key (default: none) |
options | expression, variable | the value of the ciphers (allowed encryption algorithms), macs (allowed hashing algorithms), or whether to allow debugging to provide more information to facilitate troubleshooting (debug: true) |
returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |
# assumes public and private key have been uploaded to project
files store,
# and public key has been added as a trusted identity on SSH
remote server
session = openRemoteCLIWithCert("host1.acme.org", 22, "root",
"/.ssh/id_rsa", "/.ssh/id_rsa.pub", <Password>)
close(session)openRemoteWindowsCLI
Open a CLI connection to a remote Windows system.
Property | Value | Description |
host* | text, expression, variable | the remote host name or address |
user* | text, expression, variable | the username for remote host (must be an administrator) |
domain* | text, expression, variable | the domain for the user |
password* | password, string, expression, variable | the password for remote host |
returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |
session = openRemoteWindowsCLI("windows.acme.org", "Administrator",
"ACME", <Password>)
close(session)quoteCLIParam
Quote a CLI command parameter so that no characters have special meaning to the CLI interpreter.
Property | Value | Description |
param* | text, expression, variable | the command parameter to quote |
method* | choice (cmd, powershell, sh), text, expression, variable | the cli quoting method |
returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |
# open file with windows local users to create
varNewUsersInput = openDelimitedTextInput(newwindowslocalusers.csv,
"username, givenName, surname, password")
varSession = openRemoteWindowsCLI("windows.acme.org", "Administrator",
"ACME", <Password>)
close(session)
forEach(varNewUserRecord, newUsersInput) {
# quote the dynamic data for use with powershell
varQuotedUsername = quoteCLIParam(varNewUserRecord[\'username\'],
"powershell")
varQuotedFullName = quoteCLIParam(varNewUserRecord[\'givenName\']
+ " " + varNewUserRecord[\'surname\'], "powershell")
varQuotedPassword = quoteCLIParam(varNewUserRecord[\'username\'],
"powershell")
# build the powershell command using the quoted data
varPSCommand = "$Computer = [ADSI]\\"WinNT://$Env:COMPUTERNAME,
Computer\\""
varPSCommand = $varPSCommand + ";$LocalAdmin = $Computer.Create
(\'User\" + varQuotedUsername + ")"
varPSCommand = $varPSCommand + ";$LocalAdmin.SetPassword
(" + varQuotedPassword + ")"\n varPSCommand = $varPSCommand +
";$LocalAdmin.SetFullName(" + varQuotedQuotedFullname + ")"
varPSCommand = varPSCommand + ";$LocalAdmin.UserFlags = 64 + 65536"
varPSCommand = varPSCommand + ";$LocalAdmin.SetInfo()"
# quote the entire powershell command for cmd
varQuotedPSCommand = quoteCLIParam(varPSCommand, "cmd")
runRemoteCLICommand(varSession, "powershell -command " +
varQuotedPSCommand)
}
close(varSession)
close(varNewUsersInput)runCLICommand
Run a CLI command. Returns a record with 3 fields: exitStatus, output, and error.
Property | Value | Description |
command* | text, expression, variable | the command to run |
input | text, expression, variable | a string to feed to the command as standard input (default: none) |
env | expression, variable | a Record containing environment variables to set (default: none) |
returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |
result = runCLICommand("date")
# Should return current date/time
log(, u"result['output']", )runRemoteCLICommand
Run a CLI command on a remote system. Returns a record with 3 fields: exitStatus, output, and error.
Property | Value | Description |
remoteCLI* | expression, variable | the remote CLI connection |
command* | text, expression, variable | the command to run. |
input | text, expression, variable | a string to feed to the command as standard input (default: none) |
env | expression, variable | a Record containing environment variables to set (default: none) |
returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |
session = openRemoteCLI("host1.acme.org","root","password")
result = runRemoteCLICommand(session,"date")
close(session)
# Should return current date/time
log(, u"result['output']", )Was this article helpful?