copying on to BMCs will never be the same!

[Joel Stanley]

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 19:14 +0000, austenc at us.ibm.com wrote:
>  
> Having to enter a password is sooo 1999.  This expect script will
> take a series of source/destinations and copy them on to a system. 
> This is useful when you need to copy files to various directories. 

Cool!

Another way to do it is to use rsync and sshpass:

sshpass -p mypassword rsync -rP file1 file2 file3 user at bmc:/tmp/

Cheers,

Joel

>  
>  
> pushit.exp 9.3.164.147 ipmid /home/root libapphandler.so
> /usr/lib/host-ipmid
>  
> If you have access to expect, the script is between the "=" signs
> below...
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> #!/usr/bin/expect -f
>  
> set maxloop "[llength $argv]"
>  
> if {$maxloop < 3} {
>     puts "USAGE:  $argv0 <ip> \[<srcfile> <destination_dir>\] ..."
>     exit 1
> }
> set bmcpwd "0penBmc\r"
> set bmcip "[lindex $argv 0]"
> set bmcsystem "root@$bmcip"
>  
> for {set i 1} {$i < $maxloop} {incr i 2} {
>     
>     set cmd "/usr/bin/scp [lindex $argv $i] $bmcsystem:[lindex $argv
> $i+1] "
>     puts $cmd
>     spawn {*}$cmd;
>     expect "password:"
>     send $bmcpwd
>  
> }
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> Chris Austen
> POWER Systems Enablement Manager
> (512) 286-5184 (T/L: 363-5184)