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Can I pass credentials sets into Alert action Execute External Program?

I'm attempting to log into an external system via command line and I would like to pass the username/password of the account I selected to be used in the Alert Action properties. I'm trying to push this over the ssh command in PowerShell. Is this possible or is there a better way?

  • Just bumping this to see if there's any macros/variables I can use to securely pass the credentials I'm setting over to an external program. This would be great for quite a few things I'd like to do but not finding anything on this myself yet.

  • There is not an OOTB way to do this work.  People have used all manner of ways to store credentials.

    If you could give a little more specifics on what you're trying to accomplish, we can brainstorm some ideas.

  • The original intent of this was to reach out to Linux servers and do some maintenance on them when an issue is detected. Now there's been some talk about Remedy ticket integration so I'm looking into API scripting and this will need to pass along credentials as well. Would prefer this to be handled through SolarWinds rather than PowerShell Secrets or something else but I understand if this isn't possible. Hoping it was since you can do this in SAM I believe.