EM-WinRM¶ ↑

An EventMachine client for Windows Remote Management (WinRM). This allows you to invoke commands on Windows machines from any machine that can run Ruby. This client leverages the EventMachine reactor to run the same command across multiple machines in parallel (think net-ssh-multi).

WinRM allows you to call native objects in Windows. This includes, but is not limited to, running batch scripts, powershell scripts and fetching WMI variables. For more information on WinRM, please visit Microsoft’s WinRM site.

Deprecation Notice¶ ↑

The functionality provided by this library has been merged into knife-windows. Following the release of knife-windows v1.0.0, this library will no longer be used and thus no longer be maintained.

Example Usage¶ ↑

servers = {
  'ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com' => {:port => 80, :user => 'Administrator', :password => 'super_secret_passowrd'},
  'ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com' => {:port => 80, :user => 'Administrator', :password => 'super_secret_passowrd'},
  'ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com' => {:port => 80, :user => 'Administrator', :password => 'super_secret_passowrd'}
}

def h
  @highline ||= HighLine.new
end

def print_data(host, data, color = :cyan)
  if data =~ /\n/
      data.split(/\n/).each { |d| print_data(host, d, color) }
  else
    puts "#{h.color(host, color)} #{data.chomp}"
  end
end

# create a session
session = EventMachine::WinRM::Session.new(:log_level => :info)

# add some servers
servers.each do |host,options|
  session.use(host,options)
end

# create some callbacks
session.on_output do |host, data|
  print_data(host, data)
end
session.on_error do |host, err|
  print_data(host, data, :red)
end
session.on_finish do |host|
  host = host == :done ? 'All Servers' : host
  print_data(host, 'done.')
end

# run a command
session.relay_command('dir')

Gives the following output:

ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Volume in drive C has no label.
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Volume Serial Number is 9415-4101
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Directory of C:\Users\Administrator
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          .
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          ..
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Contacts
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Desktop
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Documents
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Downloads
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Favorites
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Links
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Music
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Pictures
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Saved Games
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Searches
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  03:30 AM    <DIR>          Videos
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com                0 File(s)              0 bytes
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com               13 Dir(s)  21,553,827,840 bytes free
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Volume in drive C has no label.
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Volume Serial Number is 9415-4101
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Directory of C:\Users\Administrator
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          .
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          ..
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Contacts
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Desktop
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Documents
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Downloads
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Favorites
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Links
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Music
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Pictures
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Saved Games
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Searches
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com 02/28/2011  06:13 PM    <DIR>          Videos
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com                0 File(s)              0 bytes
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com               13 Dir(s)  21,535,481,856 bytes free
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Volume in drive C has no label.
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Volume Serial Number is 9415-4101
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com  Directory of C:\Users\Administrator
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          .
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          ..
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Contacts
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Desktop
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Documents
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Downloads
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Favorites
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Links
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Music
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Pictures
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Saved Games
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Searches
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com 03/01/2011  01:17 AM    <DIR>          Videos
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com                0 File(s)              0 bytes
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com               13 Dir(s)  21,555,576,832 bytes free
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-192.compute-1.amazonaws.com done.
ec2-75-xxx-xxx-127.compute-1.amazonaws.com done.
ec2-50-xxx-xxx-141.compute-1.amazonaws.com done.
All Servers done.

Credit¶ ↑

Thanks to Dan Wanek who wrote the WinRM Ruby client gem that is used heavily by this gem.

Also big thanks to Paul Morton and Chris McClimans (aka Hippie Hacker) for lots of real world testing and features!

Contact¶ ↑

Twitter: @schisamo
IRC: schisamo
Email: schisamo@opscode.com
Github: github.com/opscode/em-winrm
Tickets: tickets.opscode.com # knife-windows project

License¶ ↑

Author: Seth Chisamore (<schisamo@opscode.com>)
License: Apache License, Version 2.0

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