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khalid_k_50814
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Oct 21, 2009

plink syntax question?

Hello,     I am new to the F5/BIG-IP world and have been struggling with a problem for sometime. I am writing a script which needs to SSH from a WINDOWS machine and remotely send command...
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khalid_k_50814
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Oct 26, 2009
Aaron,

 

 

Thanks for the reply.

 

 

When I run the command you suggested I get the following error:

 

 

C:\>plink -ssh endecaF5@140.147.132.22 -pw blah "b node list"

 

 

BIGpipe parsing error:

 

012e0008:3: The requested command (b node list) is invalid

 

 

C:\>

 

 

Again, when I manually SSH into the F5 and run the "b node list" from the command line, it returns a list of nodes:

 

 

bp>b node list

 

node 140.147.249.7 {

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.101 {

 

screen CRSAPPS20

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.102 {

 

screen CRSAPPS21

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.111 {

 

screen CRSAPPS24

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.112 {

 

screen CRSAPPS25

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.121 {

 

screen CRSAPPS26

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.122 {

 

screen CRSAPPS27

 

}

 

node 192.168.192.131 {

 

screen CRSAPPS18

 

}

 

 

 

Running version from the command line, it appears that our BIG-IP is version 9.4.7:

 

 

bp>version

 

Kernel:

 

Linux 2.4.21-9.4.7.320.0smp

 

Package:

 

BIG-IP Version 9.4.7 320.1

 

Final Edition

 

Enabled Features:

 

.... (too much to paste)

 

 

 

I also tried problematically SSH'ing and sending the same remote command through a Java API (http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/), and am getting the same errors.

 

 

Any idea on how to proceed?

 

 

Thanks again in advance Aaron,