perl for automation, ideas, suggestions?

[aabiir]

Hello everyone,
My first post here so please forgive any faux pas. I am wondering of ways to automate the following task.

Currently, I am ssh'ing into a license server and entering some standard info which this server uses to generate a license key. This is an interactive command line based process.

How can I get perl to do this for me? How do I have it interact with the server when, say it is prompted for number of users needing a license?

I was brainstorming, thought you guys might be able to give me some ideas here.

Thanks.
- striving for perlfection

 

[TrojanWarBlade]

This idea worries me. It's an interractive process for a reason.


Trojan.

 

[fishiface]

If you're happy that you're solving the correct problem (and Trojan is a very wise man) there is a module, Net::SSH, which allows you to initiate and send commands commands over an ssh session and process the responses.

Yours,

fish

["]As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.["]
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