WinRM support

[adpande]

Hi
It would be wonderful to see winrm support to execute command on Windows servers.

Regards,
Abhishek

[jeffpeiyt]

Hi Abhishek,

Thanks very much for your interests and suggestion on Parallec.

not familiar with winrm. From https://github.com/bmoussaud/WinRM , it said The Windows Remote Management (WinRM) is the Microsoft implementation of WS-Management Protocol, a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based, firewall-friendly protocol that allows hardware and operating systems, from different vendors, to interoperate.

Thus, it looks like a wrapper protocol based on SOAP, which is XML just based on HTTP(S). If you can intercept the actual message in XML. Wonder could you please trying to send the raw XML content (which is essentially SOAP) in HTTP?

[jeffpeiyt]

it seems possible to integrate Parallec with the overthere WinRmClient : http://xebialabs.github.io/overthere/javadoc/com/xebialabs/overthere/cifs/winrm/WinRmClient.html

However this may not be the focus for Parallec now... however your contribution on this would be much appreciated! Feel free to fork it and submit a merge request after trying it out

From http://www.masterzen.fr/2014/01/11/bootstrapping-windows-servers-with-puppet/:

One component of WinRM is WinRS: Windows Remote Shell. This is the part that allows to run remote commands. Recent Windows version (at least since Server 2003) are shipped with WinRM installed (but not started by default).

this may be a good reference: https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/rundeck-winrm-plugin

https://github.com/rundeck-plugins/rundeck-winrm-plugin/blob/master/src/main/java/com/dtolabs/rundeck/plugin/overthere/OTWinRMNodeExecutor.java

WinRM is an HTTP/SOAP based protocol. By default, the payload is encrypted if the protocol is used in a Domain Controller environment (in this case, it uses Kerberos), which will not be our case on EC2.

[jeffpeiyt]

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