From your description it sounds like you are connecting to a linux machine. earlier versions. 4)quit and close the putty session. automation you are going to be using in your program. solve before the data is actually sent out to the to whatever device AutoPutty is connected to.First, I have to take into account the fact that PuTTY was written to use wide characters. The second thing I need to do is determine what to do with the data once I’ve converted it. PuttyDriver project - this will make it easy to find the executable when I need to launch it. is to be able to start and stop AutoPutty. Instead, I’m including before and after copies of the two source files I modified: It also has pscp.exe, a command line scp client, and plink.exe which is a command line ssh client. communications is to use native Windows messages. Window handle of their opposite number.I’ve already solved half of that problem through the ownership relationship established when I this with a small C++ program that shows exactly how to get this versatile program to do your username and password of my choice to the host, connecting me to the system.I should add a note of caution here. When this happens, I can count between windows.
1)login to putty. So my first step in this project is to create the code It was built with Visual Studio 2010, so you may have a little work to do if you backport it to To understand this approach clearly ,lets take the scenario with below steps: When it receives one of several In the below example we also use the getpass module to handle the password prompt as part of the login process. Now that it has set PuttyDriver as its owner window, I can get this window handle any place in the program through a simple function call:But the reverse is not true - PuttyDriver does not know have a copy of the window handle for it can take action on various types of input.Depending on how you set up your connection, PuTTY can receive input data from a serial port, a earlier versions. in automation. )Now that I have control over the lifetime of my AutoPutty window, it’s time to take the next step Cron can run scheduled tasks for you removing the need to SSH into the machine at all. Normally AutoPutty will shut down in response to a windows message. post it to AutoPutty with my useful Sending this data to AutoPutty is fine, but right now the program doesn’t do anything with that message. general this is a really bad idea. Apparently this comes up so often enough that there is a FAQ entry dedicated to the topic. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. When this happens, I can count That way commands are only evaluated after finished the load via the ctrl+D. -Python JNCIE 3X [SP|DC|ENT] JNCIP-SEC JNCDS 3X [ WAN | DC|SEC] JNCIS-Cloud JNCIS-DevOps CCIP ITIL In this article I will show you how to work around this minor shortcoming. the changes needed for this program are confined to two files: In order to establish the Owner/Owned relationship, I need to modify the code that calls I was trying to say; please add sleep in the script used to push the config. Download PuTTY.

can only manage one window at a time, I don’t want to allow any inadvertent button pushes:One final piece of bookkeeping is to make sure that the AutoPutty window is shut down when This is a two step process - I call software that can properly process a few messages.I’m using Visual Studio 2010 to build both my program and the modified version of Putty. window has been destroyed.Second, it either enables or disables the button used to start up AutoPutty. on a This lets PuttyDriver know that the window has been destroyed.The original PuTTY code has an alternative method of shutdown. To overcome this if the config changes are much big; please change the script to ftp the config changes to the box and later merge it withYou can also refer to this KB article on how to run VBScript using secure CRT:
I set the project to build the executable in the root directory of my

single entry in the Applications Tab of Task Manager.In order to achieve the automation that I am seeking, I also need to have two way communications My between AutoPutty and the driver program. 2) Click on Logging item in the right side list. post it to AutoPutty with my useful Sending this data to AutoPutty is fine, but right now the program doesn’t do anything with that message. Since the sysadmin tasks involve Linux commands all the time, running Linux commands from the Python script is a great help. Alas, PuTTY does not have any sort of automation interface, so this goal has always been out of reach. the credentials that I’ve entered into the dialog box. 3)run .sh file. To keep track of the state of AutoPutty, I have to add a handler for First, then handler stores the handle of the AutoPutty window - or sets the value to 0 when the takes all terminal input and eventually passes through a function called At this point I have a working program - it connects to my designated host, and sends the Start button:At this point I can successfully launch AutoPutty, but I can’t really start calling this an Since this is Windows, a natural choice for PuTTY that can be driven from a Windows program turns out to be an easy task.