Remote Script Plugin Manual

Remote Script

The Remote Script plugin is an XL Release plugin that allows XL Release to execute commands on remote hosts. It does so by using the Overthere framework. Overthere is a Java library to manipulate files and execute processes on remote hosts, i.e. do stuff "over there". See the Overthere Github repository for more information.

The Remote Script plugin comes with two task types:

• Unix Remote Script: Execute a shell script via SSH on Unix hosts.
• Windows Remote Script: Execute a batch script via WinRM on Windows hosts.

Unix

Input Properties:

• Username is the login ID of the user on your Unix host.
• Password is the password of your user on your Unix host.
• Sudo indicates if your script will be executed using sudo.
• Address is the address of your remote host.
• Remote Path is the path on the remote host where you script will be executed.
• Script is the shell script to execute on your remote host.

Output Properties:

• Output is the variable in which the standard output will be stored.
• Err is the variable in which the error output will be stored.

Windows

Input Properties:

• Username is the login ID of the user on your Windows host.
• Password is the password of your user on your Windows host.
• Address is the address of your remote host.
• Remote Path is the path on the remote host where you script will be executed. Note that UNC paths are not supported.
• Script is the batch script to execute on your remote host.
• Timeout is the WinRM timeout in XML schema duration format. The default value is PT60.000S.

Output Properties:

• Output is the variable in which the standard output will be stored.
• Err is the variable in which the error output will be stored.