Looking for something that allows me to do remote calls

[David Thornton]

Maybe the local java can run an expect script that connects to the remote
system. Expect is well suited to capture interactive sessions.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Dave Cramer <davecramer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I forgot to add one criteria, I do not want the client end to run Java,
> these are small machines, so something written in C or with a much smaller
> footprint than java would be nice
>
> I've tried jsch, getting the end of the stream is a PITA. I am going to
> play around with a custom prompt to mark the end.
>
> Dave Cramer
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
>> I found online two ways to do this with java+ssh:
>> http://zerioh.tripod.com/ressources/sockets.html
>> http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/examples/
>>
>> Take a look, people sais those examples works and are interesting...
>>
>> Mauro
>> http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521
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>>
>> 2013/11/4 Dave Cramer <davecramer-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>
>>
>>> I'd like to get various pieces of information such as iptables from a
>>> machine remotely, using a java program.
>>>
>>> One option is to use ssh to make calls, but determining when it is done
>>> is problematic. IE you can wait for a certain amount of time for all of the
>>> output, but that just seems fraught with problems.
>>>
>>> Another option is to use NRPE or the like to make calls remotely.
>>>
>>> Is there something out there that does this already ?
>>>
>>> Dave Cramer
>>>
>>
>>
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