Can ITMS Tasks Run Shell Commands on Linux (Unix) Systems

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

Is there is a way, similar to what can be done when managing Windows Computers, to run Tasks on Linux systems using command lines (shell/bash) like find, cat, grep, systemctl,etc?

Environment

Release : ITMS 8.5, ITMS 8.6

Resolution

ITMS 8.x does provide RUN SCRIPT options that include "UNIX script" from the SMP Console as you see if the following screenshot:

Manage > Jobs and Tasks > New (Task) > Run Script

Here's a screenshot of a quick test that shows a test of "cat" is working:

Our documentation that explains this is found at:

Run Script Task Page