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VBS script not launch when not logged in

I'm trying to automate a VBS script for a Telenet session based on a triggered alert. The script works as designed while logged into server. But when the server does not have a logged in session, the script never executes.

Anyone had this problem before?

Here's the script...............................

Sub Main()
dim wshShell
set wshShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")
wshShell.run("telnet <server name>")
Wscript.Sleep 1000
wshShell.SendKeys "<username>~"
Wscript.Sleep 1000
wshShell.SendKeys "<password>~"
Wscript.Sleep 8000
wshShell.SendKeys "<do stuff>.bat~"
End Sub

Call Main()

Matthew Yancey
Network Engineer
Intersil Corporation

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udaemen

You can try to let the script execute with a system account with sufficents right.

2020

Rather than scripting a telnet session which i've found to be flakey in the past with delay timings for the keystrokes, use something like PSTools utility PSEXEC to launch the .bat directly remote box.

myancey

Thanks all.

I abandoned the VBS. I've resorted to using Putty SSH and PLink. With Plink, you can specify the profile to load (defined in putty) and then pass the username and passwd via a PLink command line. In the Putty profile, you define the keystrokes to pass upon connection.

Works well.

Putty util details below....

PuTTY Link: command-line connection utility
Release 0.52
Usage: plink [options] [user@]host [command]
("host" can also be a PuTTY saved session name)
Options:
-v show verbose messages
-ssh force use of ssh protocol
-P port connect to specified port
-pw passw login with specified password
-m file read remote command(s) from file
-L listen-port:host:port Forward local port to remote address
-R listen-port:host:port Forward remote port to local address

Matthew Yancey
Network Engineer
Intersil Corporation