For bulk administration of hosts via ssh, there are powerful tools such as Ansible for the job. However, if you need to automate ssh for a one-off task, you may find the remote host systems throwing up interactive authentication prompts for sudo that need to be answered. If you need to run sudo commands that … Bash: automating ssh login and sudo that require interactive login
WinSCP is a Windows application for transferring files via fto or scp to remote host. A feature not many take advantage of is the ability to create automation scripts that can execute these transfers as silent batch jobs. In this article I will show how to use scripted FTP commands and SCP commands to automate … WinSCP: Automated file transfer from a Windows host
If you have worked on deploying packages via apt-get, you are probably familiar with a couple of forms of interruption during the package installation and upgrade process. The first is the text menu shown during package upgrades that informs you that a new configuration file is available and asks if you want to keep your … Ubuntu: Silent package installation and debconf
For full instructions on installing the AppDynamics Controller on Linux, see the official documentation. However, when you get to the step for installing in silent mode, it can be confusing because although it shows you how to specify the path to a response file and the keys available, it does not give you a sample … AppDynamics: Silent Install of Controller on Ubuntu and license directory
Identity Management for On-Premise Applications Our industry today has some very proven technologies for providing a single set of login credentials to applications installed on-premise. Most commonly, companies use a central Identity Management system (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory/Oracle Internet Directory/IBM Tivoli), and these systems implement an LDAP interface that 3rd party applications can call to … EMC OnDemand: Federated Identity Management and Silent SSO