Executing TCL within the Windows environment

AlexC

Our organization is relatively new to Solar Winds and we are hoping to leverage UNIX TCL scripts by migrating them to our Windows environment.

The Solar Winds documentation suggests any WSH executable script can be invoked however it isn't clear how to instruct the Windows Monitor that the script is TCL. Further from my understanding UNIX scripts are executed on the remote server via SSH however windows scripts are executed on the Application Performance Monitor (APM) requiring UNC and appropriate shares to execute the commands i.e. scripts developed to execute locally will require effort to enable them to run from Solar Winds.

If this is confusing then possibly someone can provide a set of instructions enabling a TCL script developed to execute on windows host A to execute from Solar Winds.   

FormerMember

Our organization is relatively new to Solar Winds and we are hoping to leverage UNIX TCL scripts by migrating them to our Windows environment. The Solar Winds documentation suggests any WSH executable script can be invoked however it isn't clear how to instruct the Windows Monitor that the script is TCL. Further from my understanding UNIX scripts are executed on the remote server via SSH however windows scripts are executed on the Application Performance Monitor (APM) requiring UNC and appropriate shares to execute the commands i.e. scripts developed to execute locally will require effort to enable them to run from Solar Winds. If this is confusing then possibly someone can provide a set of instructions enabling a TCL script developed to execute on windows host A to execute from Solar Winds.

 

Hi Alex-

You should be able to execute any type of script locally on the UNIX server from APM using Plink. Plink is part of the PuTTY (Open Source) suite that uses SSH. You install plink locally on your Orion server and issue the command to execute it there. It executes the command via the secure SSH tunnel to the target UNIX server.  I do not have a template for you, however, you should be able to work it out. It's just a matter of kicking off plink (plink.exe) with a set of arguments (servername, script to run, etc).

Executable here: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html

Here's the Plink docs: http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.60/htmldoc/Chapter7.html#plink

Look at section 7.2.2

Caveat: Make sure to first connect to every box that you want to exceute a script from your Orion server and secure the SSH certificate before running the plink monitor.

HTH,

Mike