Using DB to run command locally.

Is there a way toolset to run a local command on db.
I currently use a host command via our software to copy some files from one area of the db server to another. But would rather this be done via the database.
ITs a simple run command
CMD /c MOVE /Y c:\install\*.* c:\

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Use SMA to run commands inside VM created from WAP

Hello,
I didnt find any SMA specific forum, so I post here.
Im new to SMA and have a question that I cant find the answer to.
We are about to deploy a new Hyper-V/SC/WAP enviroment.
We use virtual networks and I have problem to connect and execute powershell on the virtual machines.
I want to do some cutomizations on the VM after they are deployed (Windows Server 2012R2) from a Gallery item in WAP.
In VM Clouds in Service Management Portal I have activated an Automation with Object = MicrosoftCompute VMRole and Action = Create.
In my Runbook I check the status on the creation of the VM and when the status is complete I want to execute some powershell on the new server.
So far so good, but here is my problem, I cant connect to the new VM.
I have tried:
$ComputerName = $ResourceObject.ComputerName
InlineScript {
Get-Service | Out-File “c:\test.txt”
} -PSComputerName $ComputerName
I have tired to add -PSCredential after -PSComputername aswell.
The Runbook will enter a Suspended state with the following exception:
Connecting to remote server Fredrik-Test failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot process the request. The following error occured while using Kerberos authentication: Cannot find the computer Fredrik-Test.
It looks like SMA have no clue how to access the new VM.
I went to the VMM server and ran the following script:
$adminpasswd = ConvertTo-SecureString “xxxxx” -AsPlainText -Force
$adminCredentials = New-Object System.Management.Automation.PSCredential (“administrator”, $adminpasswd)
$VM = Get-SCVirtualMachine | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq ‘Computer013′}
Invoke-Command -Computername $VM.ComputerName -ScriptBlock {Get-Service | Out-File “c:\test.txt”} -credential $adminCredentials
And there I got same error:
[Computer013] Connecting to remote server Computer013 failed with the following error message : The WinRM client cannot process the request because the server name canno
t be resolved. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (Computer013:String) [], PSRemotingTransportException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ComputerNotFound,PSSessionStateBroken
How do I run commands inside the VM that is created from WAP in a Tenant cloud and use virtual network ?
Regards
Fredrik Ljus

I get same error.
Because I use Network Virtualization it looks like SMA or VMM cant find the VM.
But how does it work if you for example make a gallery item that will install SQL.
In that case the server will be installed from the original image with only the OS and then the SQL server will be installed after.
How does the VMM/SPF communicate with the VM to install the SQL server? Bacause when installing the SQL server it mounts a VHD with the media and trigger the install localy on the VM.
So, somehow it must be possible to communicate with the VM without using NAT and go through the Gateway server?

Using java to run command line as %username%

Hi all,
can any one help with this?
I'm trying to run a command line from a database as %username% in Windows. So far I have the following script, courtesy of Frank Naude to build a java class that is published within a plsql procedure. A command line can then be passed to it.
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Filename: oscmd.sql
rem Purpose: Execute operating system commands from PL/SQL
rem Notes: Specify full paths to commands, for example,
rem specify /usr/bin/ps instead of ps.
rem Date: 09-Apr-2005
rem Author: Frank Naude, Oracle FAQ
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Grant Java Access to user USER1
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
conn sys/password@database as sysdba
EXEC dbms_java.grant_permission('USER1', 'SYS:java.lang.RuntimePermission', 'writeFileDescriptor', '');
EXEC dbms_java.grant_permission('USER1', 'SYS:java.lang.RuntimePermission', 'readFileDescriptor', '');
EXEC dbms_java.grant_permission('USER1', 'SYS:java.io.FilePermission', '/bin/sh', 'execute');
EXEC dbms_java.grant_permission( 'USER1', 'SYS:java.io.FilePermission','C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe', 'execute' );
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Create Java class to execute OS commands...
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
conn user1/password@database
CREATE OR REPLACE AND COMPILE JAVA SOURCE NAMED "Host" AS
import java.io.*;
public class Host {
public static void executeCommand(String command) {
try {
String[] finalCommand;
finalCommand = new String[4];
finalCommand[0] = "C:\\WINDOWS\\system32\\cmd.exe";
finalCommand[1] = "/y";
finalCommand[2] = "/c";
finalCommand[3] = command;
// Execute the command...
final Process pr = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(finalCommand);
// Capture output from STDOUT...
BufferedReader br_in = null;
try {
br_in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getInputStream()));
String buff = null;
while ((buff = br_in.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("stdout: " + buff);
try {Thread.sleep(100); } catch(Exception e) {}
br_in.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("Error printing process output.");
ioe.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
br_in.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {}
// Capture output from STDERR...
BufferedReader br_err = null;
try {
br_err = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(pr.getErrorStream()));
String buff = null;
while ((buff = br_err.readLine()) != null) {
System.out.println("stderr: " + buff);
try {Thread.sleep(100); } catch(Exception e) {}
br_err.close();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
System.out.println("Error printing execution errors.");
ioe.printStackTrace();
} finally {
try {
br_err.close();
} catch (Exception ex) {}
catch (Exception ex) {
System.out.println(ex.getLocalizedMessage());
show errors
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Publish the Java call to PL/SQL...
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE host(p_command IN VARCHAR2)
AS LANGUAGE JAVA
NAME 'Host.executeCommand (java.lang.String)';
show errors
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
rem Let's test it
rem -----------------------------------------------------------------------
exec host('notepad');
The trouble is although this script works great for commands that can be run is the 'background' as SYSTEM is I want to pass a command to actually open something e.g. notepad in the above example nothing seems to happen. As far as I can make out the command line is running but not as %username% so it's not running notepad.exe in the foreground.
I'm happy to clarify more if necessary.
Can anyone help with this?
Cheers
Yog

Bill,
Thank you for the quick answer. I believe you are right in your assumption.
I have been searching but found nothing so far.
I need to be able to run this line "wmic
Product where name='XXX XXX XXX' call uninstall"
in an elevated command prompt to uninstall the program.
I was looking for a VB script or PowerShell to execute it remotely on non domain roaming PCs.
Th3e command can be run remotely against stand-alone workstations but you must supply credentials. Post in the platform forum for you version of Windows for help in using the WMIC utility. WMIC /? will give you all of the command options fro
remote execution. UAC only affects local systems. You cannot use WMIC to remote back to the local system. WMIC does not allow impersonation to the local system.
Most installers will not automatically allow an unattended uninstall. If there is any dialog at all the uninstall will fail and can hang.
I recommend contacting the vendor of the application to get more information.
In all cases you cannot bypass UAC as Bill has noted. I am only noting that, sometimes, in a workgroup, you can use WMIC to remotely uninstall an application.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Run command without using ./

Hi,
Maybe I place this question in a wrong forum. But I guess there is somebody who knows.
How to run command under Linus platform without using ./ ?
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How can I run crs_stat ?

Hi,
Thanks all.
The values of the export,
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/u01/app/crs/product/11.1.0/crs
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Rc.local, run command as regular user?

I want to run a command at startup that can't safely be run as root (and I don't want it to be anyway). The only way I know of to execute a command at startup is rc.local, but that will run the command as root. I know sudo can be used to run commands as other users. If I use sudo to change what user the startup command is running as, will that be safe? In other words, will that effectively make it as if it was being run by a regular user instead of root? Or is there a better way of doing this? Thanks.

You can also put it in your .bashrc, so it will be executed every time you log in. For example, I have it set to mount my external disc if it's plugged but not mounted:
if [[ -r /dev/disk/by-label/disco-externo && `mount | grep disco-externo | wc -l` -eq 0 ]]
then
sudo mount /dev/disk/by-label/disco-externo /mnt/disco-externo
fi
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Using computer variables in task sequence "Run Command Line"

I am attempting to deploy VMs through VMware's vRealize Automation tool using CM. The process creates a CM computer object then creates a direct rule on a CM collection for the new computer object. During the creation of the computer object vRA creates computer
variables provided by me on the computer object. I see the computer object built and i see the custom variables on the computer object:
Name Value
dns1 10.10.10.10
dns2 10.10.10.11
gateway 10.10.10.1
ipAddress 10.10.10.2
netMask 255.255.255.0
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Start executing command line:...
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ProgramName = ...
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Invalid address parameter (%ipAddress%). It should be a valid IPv4 address.
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customers config management engine agent of choice is installed via powercli script injection/execution (we have puppet users, ConfigMgr users, saltstack users, IEM users, Cheff users),
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How to using sqlplus to connect and run command ?

Hello,i have a small problem please help me
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what should i do ?
Thanks

kenshin19xx wrote:
Hello,i have a small problem please help me
I want to use sqlplus to connect and run command
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and then it will show data (sysdate) to screen
what should i do ?
Thanks
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Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
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How to run command on all machine in AD?

Hi,
I need to run few commands on different OU's in my Active directory environment, and want to make sure commands did run successfully on all machines. Please guide me for the same.

Hello,
Either use a Start-Up script or use Enter-PSSession at Powershell or use
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Let's begin by simply issuing the following command:
route print
An Administrative Command Prompt output shows the following the following sections of the Command Output:
Figure 1 - Issuing the 'route print' Command from an Administrative Command Prompt in Windows 7
Observing the output of the Command indicates there are 5 Major Sections. The Sections include:
Interface List
IPv4 Route Table
IPv4 Persistent Routes
IPv6 Route Table
IPv6 Persistent Routes
On this Workstation a single Physical Network Interface is visible and has been assigned a DHCP Address of '10.1.1.36'.
The IP Stack for this Workstation is as follows:
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Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
Default Gateway: 10.1.1.1
DNS Server: 10.1.1.1
DHCP Server: 10.1.1.1
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Most of the time our focus is upon the IPv4 Routing Table output. Here are the sections of the IPv4 Routing Table output for reference.
Figure 2 - The IPv4 Route Table output listing the 'all networks' route through the Default Gateway.
The next IPv4 Routing Table entry indicates '10.1.1.36' (the Host Workstation' is a member of the '10.1.1.1/24' Network and would route packets out the '10.1.1.36' Interface.
Figure 3 - The Workstation Host at '10.1.1.36' is a member of the '10.1.1.0/24' Network Subnet.
The next IPv4 Routing Table entry indicates '10.1.1.36' may receive a Broadcast from the '10.1.1.0/24' Network (as noted by the Subnet Mask of '255.255.255.255').
Figure 4 - The Workstation Host at '10.1.1.36' can offer a Broadcast on the '10.1.1.0/24 Network' (as noted by the 255.255.255.255 Subnet Mask).
Another IPv4 Routing Table entry focused on Broadcast Addresses is the following. The Host Workstation at '10.1.1.36' may offer Network Broadcasts to the '10.1.1.0/24' Network.
Figure 5 - The Workstation Host at '10.1.1.36' can receive Network Broadcasts from the '10.1.1.0/24' Network (as noted by the '10.1.1.255' Network Destination).
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Figure 7 - The Workstation Host at '10.1.1.36' includes 2 Multicast Addresses (starting with '240.0.0.0') reserved for use through either the Loopback Address '127.0.0.1' or the Host IP Address '10.1.1.36'.
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Figure 8 - The Workstation Host at '10.1.1.36' includes 2 Limited Broadcast IP Address Values to Service both the Loopback Network '127.0.0.1' and the Host IP Network '10.1.1.36'.
Finally, upon understanding the sections of the Windows 7 Routing Table there are additional functions available when using the 'route' Command. This Blog entry is focused solely on output from the 'route print' Command.
Summary: In this Blog entry focused on using the 'route print' Command from an Administrative Command Prompt in Windows 7. Each of the defined routes for a Workstation running Windows 7 Enterprise were reviewed for reference.
Lynn Lunik
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IT Pro Secure Corporation
and exchangesummit.net
blog <at> itprosecure.com

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Hi Everyone
New to all of this so please bear with me!
Starting a new project and looking to compare between the use of Hyper V and ESXi.
The project is to grab vms regardless of state, turn them on and execute scripts stored on a vm drive. The script execution has to be performed / issued by a user. C# is the main underlying code but we can potentially put in references to use powershell
scripts / whatever else if we can achieve this using hyper v.
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I have read that powershell commands include starting vms, taking snapshots, shutting down vms but I was wondering if we can get into the actual VM remotely / somehow in-order to, for example, run a script which is stored on that VMs C drive.
Has anyone tried this / is it do-able? - I have had no luck finding any examples of what we need.
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I have a few things that I have done historically.
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"UID*" {
$e = $e -replace "UID", ""
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Brian Ehlert
http://ITProctology.blogspot.com
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Oracle EM Grid Control Error: Failed to run command in process

I am trying to change "Backup Settings". After entering the Host Credentials, when I click the OK button, I receive the following error message.
Validation Error
Examine and correct the following errors, then retry the operation:
Error - Connection to host as user <user> failed.ERROR: Failed to run command in process
Any Suggestions? Thanks in advance!

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http://www.oraclenz.com

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I am able to run a DOS command locally, but I am not able to run a command from my local machine on a server.
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Hi Experts,
We are running various OS/Network and Database related commands and scripts on Local and Remote Server to perform/compare the results
As part of this activity, we have bottleneck on running commands/scripts on the remote server as we need to provide password everytime whenever we use SSH command
Also, we need to run command as ssh sudo su - oracle for security purpose which prompts password two times.
we would like to automate this process in order to save password securely(temporarily) while running ssh sudo commands/scripts.
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We may not be able to use SSHPASS as this component not installed during VM build, so we left with only option to use EXPECT.
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FWIW, here is a small script that I wrote several years ago that may help you to automate the password less ssh setup with a remote system. I just verified it and changed it to create a RSA key. The script still works and runs fine under Oracle Linux and Mac OS X.
Simply create a script called "passwordless-ssh" with the content shown below.
Assign execute privileges: chmod u+x passwordless-ssh
Then run the script as following:
./passwordless-ssh user@target_hostname_or_ip
The script will create a ssh RSA private and public key, prompt for the remote host password and the copy the pubic key to the remote host. A subsequent ssh login to the remote host should no longer prompt for the password. It is essential however that the scrips runs in an interactive session, which is verified.
#!/bin/bash
# Creating SSH public RSA key if non exist and copying it to remote target
# for passwordless SSH login.
# Author: Catch 22, Oracle OTN, 28-APR-2015
# Arguments: $1 (ssh login to remote target)
ME=passwordless-ssh
LOGFILE="/tmp/$ME.log"
f-mode()
# Check if session is interactive (terminal) or non-interactive (UDEV).
# Output: 0 = interactive, 1 = non-interactive
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f-log()
# Display messages in interactive mode, or write output to syslog
# (/var/log/messages) when in non-interactive mode. Write the messages
# to a logfile if the syslog logger interface command is not available.
# Input: $1 = text
   if f-mode; then
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# Exit and show error if current session is not interactive.
[ ! f-mode ] && f-log "[session] non-interactive, aborting" && exit 1
keyfile="$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa"
[ -z "$1" ] && echo "Missing 'user@target_host' argument. Aborted." && exit 1
if [ ! -f $keyfile ]; then
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fi
keycode=`cat $keyfile.pub`
remote_cmd2="echo "$keycode" >> $remote_ssh_file; chmod 644 $remote_ssh_file;"
remote_ssh_dir="~/.ssh"
remote_ssh_file="$remote_ssh_dir/authorized_keys"
ssh -q $1 "mkdir -p $remote_ssh_dir; chmod 700 $remote_ssh_dir
echo "$keycode" >> $remote_ssh_file; chmod 644 $remote_ssh_file"
unset ME LOGFILE keyfile keycode remote_ssh_dir remote_ssh_file
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TS-Run Command Line-run as different user

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Run Command line and specified domain user which will be running this command.
Is my domain users password safe or it will be provided in clear text in my network? Because this user must be Admin on local computer.

Just to reinforce, the tasks use standard, core Windows APIs to impersonate the account and execute the command -- these APIs never send anything in clear text and if they did, then Windows has much bigger issues. It would actually take
a huge amount of effort to not securely perform this operation.
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Is there any way to run commands when a user logs in but before the bash profile is sourced?
For example, I have a user account with a home directory on /tmp. When the user logs in, the home directory might not exist so there will be no .bash_profile to source. I want to run a script to create the directory if necessary and copy some files into it. How can that be done?
I thought of putting something in /etc/profile or /etc/profile.d/, but I would like to run something before the user's shell and environment become active.
I can use /etc/rc.local to do what I want, but I would prefer a hook to ensure that everything is set right when the user logs in.
Any ideas?
*edit*
Solution
In my case, I found that I could write my own shell script and set it as a login shell. In the script, I can configure everything I need before launching the interactive shell, then clean up anything after it exits.
Last edited by Xyne (2011-12-10 19:34:07)

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