Windows program to activate HP-UX process?

[John Kittel]

What are options, or best way, for a Windows batch script to activate or trigger a process to run on an HP-UX system?

We have an edi application on a Windows system that receives transfers from various places. It then ftp's these files to our HP-UX system. That is scripted in a Windows batch file. Then we need to run a program on the HP-UX system to process these files. Currently the analysts who have set this all up are just scheduling cron jobs to go process files when they "should" be there. But of course they keep breaking because of special circumstances that cause the files not to be there when they should.

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

There is a windows release of openssh/secure shell.

http://www.networksimplicity.com/

This can bet set up to run ssh with commands on an HP-UX server/workstaion. With a little more work, public keys can be exchanged and the access can be password free.

SEP

[Thayanidhi]

"rsh" is available in windows. Similar to "rcp" you need to set the .rhosts file in UNIX, and you would be able to run "rsh".

I am quiet sure about security of using rsh.
Similar "remsh" in hp-ux

Script which transfers the file (ftp?) can be continued with rsh.

Regds
TT

[Thayanidhi]

Typo..

My previous post to be read as "I am not sure"

Regds
TT

[John Kittel]

Well, that was easy. Thank you.

I will go with the openssh/secure shell method.

For future readers of this thread, I found another thread on this subject,
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=795232

- which provides the web link for the free download of the non-secure Microsoft Services for UNIX (SFU), here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/productinfo/default.asp

- John