Most of the time, users are having a Windows Machine on their desk or
laptop. Normally, we want to perform a full scale data retrieval from
our Linux servers in the DC, where we don’t have a trusted Linux server
to manage it….the answer to it is use “PLINK” utility.
Plink comes together with the Putty…
A simple example of usage is:
C:> plink USERNAME@SERVERNAME ‘YOUR-LINUX-COMMAND’
If you have a dozen of servers…then you probably want to write a
batch script in Windows to loop through a list of servers and mention
the list of commands juz like what i did…..
Here a typical windows batch script:
@echo off
for / f “tokens=*” %%A in (your-server-list.txt) (
C:pathtoplink.exe user@server -w YOUR-PASSWORD -m linuxcommandscript
> YOUR_OUTPUT_FILE.txt)
There you go, i did this for my sar report data collection for root
cause analysis and infrastructure load analysis….keying in a password
wif every darn login is impractical and yet you dont want to generate a
security key for the servers.
