White Papers

Technical white paper
Table of contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ............................................................................................................................................................. 2
Table of contents ................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 4
1 Some use cases for the Remote Execution feature ..................................................................................................... 5
2 Basic details of Remote Script Execution .................................................................................................................... 6
3 Configure, Edit, and Delete scripts for remote execution ............................................................................................. 7
3.1 Configure Remote Script Execution with token substitution ............................................................................... 7
3.2 Configure Remote Script Execution with password for remote execution. ........................................................ 9
3.3 Configure Remote Script Execution for script with SSH key ............................................................................ 10
3.3.1 Configure SSH key ........................................................................................................................................... 10
3.3.2 Procedure to configure Remote Script Execution for script with SSH key ....................................................... 10
3.4 Configure Remote Script Execution for RACADM / IPMI command ................................................................ 11
3.5 Edit scripts or commands used in Remote Script Execution ............................................................................ 12
3.6 Delete scripts or commands used in Remote Script Execution ....................................................................... 13
4 Create an alert policy and link to the remote execution scripts and commands ........................................................ 14
5 Validate remote script execution ................................................................................................................................ 19
6 Remote script execution using RESTful APIs ............................................................................................................ 21
6.1 Create IPMI Commands from Remote Script Execution page using REST APIs ............................................ 21
6.2 Create RACADM Commands from Remote Script Execution page using REST APIs .................................... 22
6.3 Create scripts with SSH key authentication using REST APIs ........................................................................ 23
6.4 Create Alert policy and link with action “Remote Script” .................................................................................. 24
A Technical support and resources ............................................................................................................................... 27