Desperate help needed with SSH

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Hi you Ruby Guru's

I have a small problem thats driving me crazy. I am trying to connect to
multiple ssh servers (1 at a time), run a number of commands and capture
the output to a unique file for each server.

My code looks like this :

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require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'
  
hosts = ['10.0.255.1' , '10.0.255.2' , '10.0.255.3']

instructions = [
  'sh version',
  'sh cdp ne'
  ]

hosts.each do |host|
  Net::SSH.start(host, 'user', :password => 'password') do |ssh|
  
    fn = File.open("output\/#{host}.txt", 'w')
    instructions.each do |command|
      fn.puts "|--------\[#{command}\]--------------------------"
      fn.puts ssh.exec!(command)
    end
    fn.close
  end
end

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When I run this I get the following error :

Net::SSH::ChannelOpenFailed: (4)

If I remove the instructions.each loop and run only a single command. Life
is good and it all works. If I add a second ssh.exec! or the loop, the
error returns.

It appears that the ssh.exec! closes the connection. How do I keep it open
to allow me to run a second command?

Alan.

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-- snip --

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

hosts = ['10.0.255.1' , '10.0.255.2' , '10.0.255.3']

instructions = [
'sh version',
'sh cdp ne'
]

These instructions looks strange for me. Are you sure that these run
on all hosts?

Try to use other instructions that should work like
["echo foo", "sh -c 'echo bar'"]

Maybe your instructions kill the shell environment by calling exec
or something similar.

hosts.each do |host|
Net::SSH.start(host, 'user', :password => 'password') do |ssh|

     File.open("output/#{host}.txt", 'w') do |fn|

   instructions.each do |command|
     fn.puts "|--------\[#{command}\]--------------------------"
     fn.puts ssh.exec!(command)
   end

    end

end
end

-- snip --

This part should be ok, but you can improve your code and use a block
for File.open().

  File.open("output/#{host}.txt", 'w') do |fn|
   ..
  end # fn.close not needed, because the block end close the file already.

When I run this I get the following error :

Net::SSH::ChannelOpenFailed: (4)

If I remove the instructions.each loop and run only a single command. Life
is good and it all works. If I add a second ssh.exec! or the loop, the
error returns.

Calling ssh.exec!() twice in a session is not a problem.

Net::SSH.start(host, user, :password => passwd) do |ssh|
  ['sh -c "echo foo"', 'echo bar'].each do |command|
   puts ssh.exec!(command)
  end
end

foo
bar

hth. regards, Sandor Szücs

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On 13.05.2009, at 11:05, alan@isdial.net wrote:
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unknown wrote:

I have a small problem thats driving me crazy. I am trying to connect to
multiple ssh servers (1 at a time), run a number of commands and capture
the output to a unique file for each server.

Try using Net::SSH::Telnet (which is something I wrote to talk to
routers). It hides the Net::SSH API behind a simple Net::Telnet one, and
as a side benefit, you can write code which connects transparently using
either telnet or ssh.

Alternatively, looking at the Net::SSH::Telnet code may show you how to
drive Net::SSH successfully.

HTH,

Brian.

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Hi Sandor

Thanks for the reply.

The host I am connecting to is a Cisco Router. The commands definitely work on a manual SSH session from my terminal

The first command always works.
I get the channel failure when trying to run the second command.
I tried swapping the two commands around, but I get the same failure.

I used the following code to talk to my mac:

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

  Net::SSH.start('127.0.0.1', 'user', :password => 'password') do |ssh|
    ssh.exec "ls -al"
    ssh.exec "pwd"
    ssh.exec "ps -axe"
    ssh.loop
  end

Which worked great. I then changed the IP address and replaced the commands with router commands:

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

  Net::SSH.start('10.0.255.1', 'name', :password => 'password') do |ssh|
    ssh.exec "sh ver"
    ssh.exec "cdp ne"
    ssh.loop
  end

And it fails at the second ssh.exec, so I'm guessing this is related to the Cisco SSH Server.

Alan.

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On 17 May 2009, at 12:26 AM, Sandor Szücs wrote:

On 13.05.2009, at 11:05, alan@isdial.net wrote:

-- snip --

require 'rubygems'
require 'net/ssh'

hosts = ['10.0.255.1' , '10.0.255.2' , '10.0.255.3']

instructions = [
'sh version',
'sh cdp ne'
]

These instructions looks strange for me. Are you sure that these run
on all hosts?

Try to use other instructions that should work like
["echo foo", "sh -c 'echo bar'"]

Maybe your instructions kill the shell environment by calling exec
or something similar.

hosts.each do |host|
Net::SSH.start(host, 'user', :password => 'password') do |ssh|

   File.open("output/#{host}.txt", 'w') do |fn|

  instructions.each do |command|
    fn.puts "|--------\[#{command}\]--------------------------"
    fn.puts ssh.exec!(command)
  end

  end

end

-- snip --

This part should be ok, but you can improve your code and use a block
for File.open().

File.open("output/#{host}.txt", 'w') do |fn|
..
end # fn.close not needed, because the block end close the file already.

When I run this I get the following error :

Net::SSH::ChannelOpenFailed: (4)

If I remove the instructions.each loop and run only a single command. Life
is good and it all works. If I add a second ssh.exec! or the loop, the
error returns.

Calling ssh.exec!() twice in a session is not a problem.

> Net::SSH.start(host, user, :password => passwd) do |ssh|
> ['sh -c "echo foo"', 'echo bar'].each do |command|
> puts ssh.exec!(command)
> end
> end
foo
bar

hth. regards, Sandor Szücs
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Ack.
Maybe there are options that you can set on the router to let the channel open?

regards, Sandor Szücs

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On 18.05.2009, at 19:23, Alan Claughan wrote:

And it fails at the second ssh.exec, so I'm guessing this is related to the Cisco SSH Server.

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