Systemwalker Runbook Automation Reference Guide

3.16 Notes of Each Communication Method

The operation components communicate between the Management Server and a Linked Server or Business Server as follows.

• File Transfer Infrastructure

• SSH

• Windows PowerShell

• Telnet

• RSH

• REXEC

• FTP

• If a Systemwalker Runbook Automation Agent has been installed on a Linked Server or Business Server, communications will be performed using the file transfer infrastructure. If a Systemwalker Runbook Automation has not been installed, communications will be performed using SSH (*1). However, if an error occurs with communications using the file transfer infrastructure, subsequent communications will be performed using SSH (*1) as the communication method.

*1: The following operation components also perform communications using methods other than SSH.

• Execute arbitrary command

  • SSH

  • Windows PowerShell

  • Telnet

  • RSH

  • REXEC

• Transfer files

  • SSH

  • FTP

Each note is explained as follows.

Information

Communication using Windows PowerShell can only be used when the operating system type of the Management Server, Linked Servers, and Business Servers is Windows.