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Phillip Wu

Question Phillip Wu · Dec 4, 2022

Ansible module for IRIS session

#InterSystems IRIS for Health

Hi,

For a Linux host, has anyone developed an Ansible module that will start a session to IRIS and send commands?

What I am after is something like this:

1. Supply

Username

Password

Commands <- list

Prompt <- from session command

2. Send back the output from the session

If so please advise where I can download the module?

Product version: IRIS 2022.1

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Dmitry Maslennikov · Dec 5, 2022

The hardest part of this is a login and password, and I would recommend configuring OS-based Authorization for %Service_Terminal, so, it will not require login and password. Everything else is quite simple if your script is not supposed to answer questions there.

cat commands.txt | iris session iris > output.log

and, the content of commands.txt, is something like this

write"hello world"write"I'm: ", $usernamehalt

Important to finish the script with halt command, and if you still wish to keep login and password, the first two lines should contain login and password

irisowner@ca22f45b16b1:~/temp$ cat commands.txt 
_SYSTEM
SYS
 write "hello world"
 write "I'm: ", $username
 halt
irisowner@ca22f45b16b1:~/temp$ cat commands.txt | iris session iris 

Node: ca22f45b16b1, Instance: IRIS 

Username: 
Password: 
USER>
hello world
USER>
I'm: _SYSTEM
USER>

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Dmitry Maslennikov Dec 5, 2022 to Dmitry Maslennikov

Well, I've asked about it through the ideas portal, and you mentioned some flexibility

It's ObjectScript, so, it has some flexibility. The only issue is login and password, and using OS-based auth, is a good way to solve this, obviously if OS-level is protected enough.

For instance, you can raise issues just by terminating the process with an exit code higher than 0 with $system.Process.Terminate

irisowner@ca22f45b16b1:~/temp$ cat commands.txt 
_SYSTEM
SYS
 write "hello world"
 write "I'm: ", $username
 if $g(condition,1) Do $system.Process.Terminate(,2)
 write "terminated?"
 halt
irisowner@ca22f45b16b1:~/temp$ cat commands.txt | iris session iris; echo Status: $?

Node: ca22f45b16b1, Instance: IRIS 

Username: 
Password: 
USER>
hello world
USER>
I'm: _SYSTEM
USER>
Status: 2

If you call some InterSystems internal interactive tools. So, most such tools have non-interactive endpoints, so, you can call them directly, and no interactivity is needed.

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Phillip Wu Dec 5, 2022 to Dmitry Maslennikov

Thanks for the suggestion.

You mentioned "InterSystems internal interactive tools. So, most such tools have non-interactive endpoints".

Could you please provide an example?
Is there a listing of all such "tools"?

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Dmitry Maslennikov Dec 6, 2022 to Phillip Wu

I don't see anything like the list of all available tools in the Documentation. Just from experience, tools like this, not complete list (in %SYS namespace)

Do ^Integirty
Do ^DATABASE
Do ^JOURNAL
Do ^MIRROR

Managed to find, something here

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