PLINK on OpenVMS

[Richard Brodie_1]

Have you looked at using something like Expect over SSH? You could script the client end in something like Perl/Python: it would spare you the vagaries of the DOS command line shell, at least.

[cdan]

@Richard Thanks for the idea, I already used Cygwin for automating some ILO commands through ssh using expect, because our servers don't support HP's tool for scripting. I might use it again instead plink.
I would even use FreeAXP as a management console if it was less CPU hungry!

@Joseph I don't think HP cares about some awkward customer who wants to use an unsupported open source 3rd party weird tool as "plink". Besides, within tcpip$ssh_rcmd.com, which is called by plink, it is specified:
$ ! Neither HP nor any of its subsidiaries shall be liable for technical
$ ! or editorial errors or omissions contained herein.
plink is creating a network (N) process, with no terminal device.

[labadie_1]

If you want to use Python, in the standard Python for VMS, you have paramiko,

Paramiko is a module that implements the SSH2 protocol for secure (encrypted and authenticated) connections to remote machines

see
http://www.vmspython.org/DownloadAndInstallationPython

and
http://www.lag.net/paramiko/