rd-winrm-plugin: A Ruby repository from aaronmaxlevy

Rd-WinRM-plugin

This is a [Rundeck Node Execution plugin][1] that uses WinRM to connect to Windows and execute commands. It uses the [WinRM for Ruby][2] Library to provide the WinRM implementation [1]: http://rundeck.org/docs/plugins-user-guide/node-execution-plugins [2]: https://github.com/WinRb/WinRM

Compatible with Rundeck 2.3.x+

Features

Can run scripts, not only commands
Can run PowerShell, CMD and WQL not only CMD
Can avoid quoting problems (should be removed after core Rundeck fixes)
Can copy files to windows

Installation

Install Ruby:
something like this: apt-get install make ruby ruby-dev

Install following gems:
gem install winrm
gem install winrm-fs

Download from the releases page.

Copy the rd-winrm-plugin.zip to the libext/ directory for Rundeck. It must be named like rd-winrm-plugin-x.x.x.zip. There is no need to restart rundeck.

RD_WINRM='1.3.4'
curl https://github.com/NetDocuments/rd-winrm-plugin/archive/$RD_WINRM.zip -o /var/lib/rundeck/libext/rd-winrm-plugin-$RD_WINRM.zip

Before rundeck can run commands on windows nodes, configure winrm from an administrative powershell window

winrm quickconfig

Configuration

choose WinRM Executor as Default Node Executor
and WinRM File Copier as Default Node File Copier
Settings:
Kerberos Realm Put here fqdn of your realm in case your computer is part of AD domain
Username Put here username for basic or ssl auth
Password Put here username for basic or ssl auth
Auth type choose here kerberos, plaintext or ssl
WinRM port set port for winrm (Default: 5985/5986 for http/https)
Shell choose here powershell, cmd or wql
WinRM timeout put here time in seconds (useful for long running commands)

Special Behaviour

Allow Override parameter gives possibility to set hostname, username and password in job options, not in project. It can be used in case you need to quickly change hostnames (with dropdown list for example) or set username/pass on job level

If that parameter set to hostname you may use option variable with name winrmhost to set hostname
If that parameter set to user you may use winrmuser and winrmpass to set username/pass
If that parameter set to all you may use all these additional options
If that parameter set to none these options in jobs will be ignored

Limitations

Scripts in c:/tmp with .sh extension will be renamed into .ps1, .bat or .wql
Quotes behaviour can be strange (we trying to fix rundeck core strange behaviour, so our own also not perfect)
WQL execution never been tested :)

Troubleshooting

You may have some errors like WinRM::WinRMAuthorizationError.
You can run the following commands on the server to try to solve the problem:

winrm set winrm/config/client/auth @{Basic="true"}
winrm set winrm/config/service/auth @{Basic="true"}
winrm set winrm/config/service @{AllowUnencrypted="true"}

You can read more about that on issue #29 on ruby WinRM page

PR and reporting

PR is highly welcome, we using gitflow for our development process, so please, make them to develop branch.
If you have some issue please describe steps to reproduce it

License and Authors

Author: Volodymyr Babchynskyy

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

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