XLR Powershell Plugin

Introduction

The XL Release Remote Script plugin allows XL Release to execute powershell commands on remote hosts. It does so by using the Overthere framework, a Java library for manipulating files and executing processes on remote hosts.

The XLR Powershell Plugin adds one more task to the *Remote Script group as follows:

• Remote Script:Powershell: Execute a powershell script on a Microsoft Windows host via WinRM

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##Windows Powershell Properties##

Property	Description
Script	The shell script to execute on the remote host (required)
Remote Path	The path on the remote host where the script should be executed (required)
Temporary Directory Path	Where to store temporary files; this directory will be removed on connection close
Address and Port	Address Telnet or WinRM port of the remote host (required)
Username	The Unix host user log-in ID (required)
Password	The Unix host user password
Private key	The private key to use (verbatim) for authentication
Private key file and Passphrase	The file containing a private key, and an optional passphrase for the key it contains
CIFS Port	The port on which the CIFS (SMB) server runs
Windows path to Windows share mappings	Mapping from Windows paths to Windows share names; for example, C:\IBM\WebSphere → WebSphereShare
Timeout	The WinRM timeout in XML schema duration format; the default value is PT60.000S
Enable HTTPS for WinRM	Check this if the remote Windows host supports encrypted connections

Using advanced Overthere functionality

XL Release uses the Overthere framework, which includes several connection options. While the most common options are available in the XL Release GUI, you can use other options as described in the Overthere documentation.

You can change the default values of options that are not exposed in the GUI in the XLRELEASE_HOME/conf/deployit-defaults.properties file. For example, if you wish to use 64 bit Powershell instead of x86 (which is required for certain Modules), add the following line: remotescript.Powershell.powerShellPath=C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe

If you need to use a different setting for a particular option per task, you can create a type modification in the XLRELEASE_HOME/conf/synthetic.xml file for the task types. In the modification, you can add the desired Overthere connection option as a property on the task. These task properties will automatically be used as connection options for Overthere if the name matches.

For example, to make the connection timeout configurable on each task, add this to synthetic.xml:

 <type-modification type="remoteScript.Powershell">
     <property name="scriptLocation" category="input" default="C:\Windows\SysWOW64\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe"/>
 </type-modification>