I do Enterprise SYstems Management work. Our 'managing' environments are UNIX. The managed systems themselves are overwhelmingly Windows based (in the 10's of thousands).
Currently we are using rexec to execute remote programs from our Solaris systems to Windows systems (NT, 2000, XP) when we have problems or for other support purposes. Because of the inherent security problems with rexec, we have been told that rexec (and telnet) will be going away on our Windows environments.
As a replacement, we would like to use SSH as it is seems a natural migration path. Unfortunately, the Microsoft camp in our company insists that we use WMI to do this as it is included with the OS.
My question is how can we accomplish this (other than have an intermediate gateway that can take requests from our UNIX systems, process the request and return the output)?
Is it possible to use WBEM to accomplish this? Any other thoughts/comments?
Thanks in advance.
Currently we are using rexec to execute remote programs from our Solaris systems to Windows systems (NT, 2000, XP) when we have problems or for other support purposes. Because of the inherent security problems with rexec, we have been told that rexec (and telnet) will be going away on our Windows environments.
As a replacement, we would like to use SSH as it is seems a natural migration path. Unfortunately, the Microsoft camp in our company insists that we use WMI to do this as it is included with the OS.
My question is how can we accomplish this (other than have an intermediate gateway that can take requests from our UNIX systems, process the request and return the output)?
Is it possible to use WBEM to accomplish this? Any other thoughts/comments?
Thanks in advance.