Running remote commands on Windows

[Filipe Bonjour]

Hi,

I'm writing a series of scripts to be run on a Windows 2000 server to
control applications on a series of other Windows servers.

Most commands to control the application are network-transparent. But we
still need to launch from the controlling server some commands on the
running servers. For instance we need to run tlist.exe to gather
information on processes running remotely.

I tried to find both generic modules for launching commands remotely (e.g.
Net::Rsh) or more specific modules (e.g. Win32:rocess) but I haven't
found anything 100% satisfactory. I also thought of building a small
daemon running on the remote servers that would accepts requests, run
tlist.exe and return the reply. (I was thinking Net:aemon, because I
don't know enough about Windows to write a server in C).

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

TIA,

Filipe

 

[! aaa]

Win32::OLE and Win32::API are nice.

perl can launch commands natively - system() - so you don't need anything
else really.

Here's how API does it tho:-

$Shellex = new Win32::API("shell32", "ShellExecute",
['N','P','P','P','P','N'], 'I');
my $result = $Shellex->Call( $handle, $operation, $file, $params, $dir,
$show);
return $result > 32;

See MSDN for the SHellExecute FN doco.

 

[Domenico Discepola]

Hi,

I'm writing a series of scripts to be run on a Windows 2000 server to
control applications on a series of other Windows servers.

So am I (or trying to)...

I tried to find both generic modules for launching commands remotely (e.g.
Net::Rsh) or more specific modules (e.g. Win32:rocess) but I haven't
found anything 100% satisfactory. I also thought of building a small
daemon running on the remote servers that would accepts requests, run
tlist.exe and return the reply. (I was thinking Net:aemon, because I
don't know enough about Windows to write a server in C).

The only application I found was psexec.exe available from sysinternals. I
would prefer a complete Perl solution (without a system call to an external
program like psexec, or having to install telnet or ssh servers). Please
update us on the newsgroup if you have found something.

Regards,

Domenico