NxShell

[alk]

Hello.

After couple of requests we made a  small tool to help automate operations, which are currently available only thru user interface or java api. In essence, it's wrapper around Jython (Java implementation of Python) and NetXMS API, with some glue in between to make it easier to use.

More details in our Wiki: http://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/Using_nxshell_to_automate_bulk_operations

[testos]

Hello Alex.

Thanks for this tool, I'm very interested in trying it.
Is it possible to automate any task we can be done by console?
Is there available other sample scripts in addition to the one in the wiki?

Best regards.

[alk]

Yes, all operations done by GUI can be done using API. Right now it's just a raw Java API with some glue for more convenient use, but I plan to make it more Python-ish.

I can add more samples – do you have any particular idea in mind?

[testos]

I had planned to read nodes from a file and check if exist in certain containers. If they did not exist would be created and then:

• Modify some node properties: polling options, comments, custom attributes, calculation status, etc.
• Manage network interfaces only having a certain name, others unmanaged.
• Create DCI for managed interfaces.
• Edit some properties for the previous DCIs (description, transformation, thresholds, etc..)
• Create other DCI for node (MTBF & MTTR -https://www.netxms.org/forum/general-support/mtbf-(mean-time-between-failures)-and-mttr-(mean-time-to-repair)/msg8953/#msg8953-, etc.)

All this for about 400 nodes  :-[.

Best regards.

[SKYnv]

@testos said in NxShell:

• Modify some node properties: polling options, comments, custom attributes, calculation status, etc.
• Edit some properties for the previous DCIs (description, transformation, thresholds, etc..)

y can do this with sql query

[alk]

I've added couple more samples to Wiki (http://wiki.netxms.org/wiki/Using_nxshell_to_automate_bulk_operations#Sample_Scripts)

[testos]

Thank you very much for your support, it is just what I needed.
nxshell opens a world of great possibilities for large environments!

Best regards.

[testos]

Hi Alex.

I'm trying NetXMS 1.2.5 Interactive Shell and and I can see it's a nice tool. It is much easier any automatic bulk operation.

NetXMS 1.2.5 Interactive Shell
>>> help()

Welcome to Python 2.5!  This is the online help utility.

But Interactive Shell use python 2.5 vesion and the latest current production versions is Python 3.3.0
I'm trying to modify nxshell-1.2.5.jar contents to replace the lib directory from 3.3.0 version, but then I get an error in org.python.core
How can I upgrade python shell to 3.3.0 version?
I need to import some Python modules which only work with 2.7 version and later.

Best regards.

[alk]

It's build around Jython which is 2.5.4 right now (not CPython, which is 3.3.0 right now), 2.7 is in beta stage.
I've did couple of quick tests with 2.7-beta1 version and it seems to work fine. You can try this jar: https://netxms.org/nxshell-1.2.5_jython27.jar.

[testos]

Hi Alex.

Thanks for the upgrade to 2.7 version and for the Jython versions clarification. Now I can add current versions of modules I need. It is also possible to list all availables modules (in the previous version modules command gave me an error):

NetXMS 1.2.6 Interactive Shell
>>> import xlrd
>>> help()

Welcome to Python 2.7!  This is the online help utility.

If this is your first time using Python, you should definitely check out
the tutorial on the Internet at http://docs.python.org/tutorial/.

Enter the name of any module, keyword, or topic to get help on writing
Python programs and using Python modules.  To quit this help utility and
return to the interpreter, just type "quit".

To get a list of available modules, keywords, or topics, type "modules",
"keywords", or "topics".  Each module also comes with a one-line summary
of what it does; to list the modules whose summaries contain a given word
such as "spam", type "modules spam".

help> modules

Please wait a moment while I gather a list of all available modules...

BaseHTTPServer      codecs              jffi                sched
CGIHTTPServer      codeop              json                select
ConfigParser        collections        keyword            sets
Cookie              colorsys            linecache          setuptools
DocXMLRPCServer    command            locale              sgmllib
HTMLParser          commands            logging            sha
MimeWriter          compileall          macpath            shelve
Queue              compiler            macurl2path        shlex
SimpleHTTPServer    contextlib          mailbox            shutil
SimpleXMLRPCServer  cookielib          mailcap            signal
SocketServer        copy                markupbase          site
StringIO            copy_reg            marshal            smtpd
UserDict            csv                math                smtplib
UserList            ctypes              md5                sndhdr
UserString          datetime            mhlib              socket
_LWPCookieJar      dbexts              mime                sre
_MozillaCookieJar  decimal            mimetools          sre_compile
_builtin_        difflib            mimetypes          sre_constants
_future_          dircache            mimify              sre_parse
_abcoll            dis                modjy              ssl
_ast                distutils          multifile          stat
_codecs            doctest            mutex              string
_collections        dom                netrc              struct
_csv                dumbdbm            new                subprocess
_fsum              dummy_thread        nntplib            symbol
_functools          dummy_threading    nt                  synchronize
_google_ipaddr_r234 easy_install        ntpath              sys
_hashlib            email              nturl2path          sysconfig
_io                encodings          numbers            tabnanny
_jyio              errno              opcode              tarfile
_marshal            etree              operator            telnetlib
_py_compile        exceptions          optparse            tempfile
_pyio              filecmp            os                  test
_random            fileinput          parsers            tests
_rawffi            fnmatch            pawt                textwrap
_sre                formatter          pdb                this
_strptime          fpformat            pickle              thread
_systemrestart      fractions          pickletools        threading
_threading          ftplib              pipes              time
_threading_local    functools          pkg_resources      timeit
_warnings          future_builtins    pkgutil            token
_weakref            gc                  platform            tokenize
_weakrefset        genericpath        plistlib            trace
abc                getopt              popen2              traceback
aifc                getpass            poplib              tty
anydbm              gettext            posixfile          types
argparse            glob                posixpath          ucnhash
array              grp                pprint              unicodedata
ast                gzip                profile            unittest
asynchat            hashlib            pstats              urllib
asyncore            heapq              pty                urllib2
atexit              hmac                pwd                urlparse
base64              htmlentitydefs      py_compile          user
bdb                htmllib            pycimport          uu
binascii            httplib            pyclbr              uuid
binhex              ihooks              pydoc              warnings
bisect              imaplib            pyexpat            weakref
bz2                imghdr              quopri              whichdb
cPickle            imp                random              wsgiref
cStringIO          importlib          re                  xdrlib
calendar            inspect            readline            xlrd
cgi                io                  repr                xml
cgitb              isql                rfc822              xmllib
chunk              itertools          rlcompleter        xmlrpclib
cmath              jarray              robotparser        zipfile
cmd                javapath            runpy              zipimport
code                javashell          sax                zlib

Enter any module name to get more help.  Or, type "modules spam" to search
for modules whose descriptions contain the word "spam".

help>

I will continue testing this good tool...