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Managing Remote Tasks
About Remote Tasks
With the Remote Tasks feature in OpenManage Essentials, you can:
• Run commands on local and remote systems, run batch files and executable files on the local systems, and
schedule local and remote tasks.
NOTE: The files must be located on the system with OpenManage Essentials installed and not on the
remote system.
• Change power status for a system.
• Deploy OpenManage Server Administrator on systems.
• View the remote tasks.
• Make changes to any task by right-clicking it.
NOTE: If you stop a running task, it may take 3-4 minutes for the task to stop gracefully and the updated task status
to get reflected in the console.
Managing Command Line Task
You can create custom command line tasks to run CLI commands on local and remote systems, and run batch files and
executables on local systems.
For example, you can create a custom command line task to run a security audit and gather information on the systems’
security status.
To create command line tasks:
1. From OpenManage Essentials, click Manage → Remote Tasks → Common Tasks → Create Command Line Task. .
2. On General, provide a task name.
3. Select one of the following options:
– Remote Server Administrator Command—Select to run the server administrator command on remote
servers.
– Generic Command—Select to run the command, executable file, or batch file.
– IPMI Command—Select to run the IPMI commands on the remote system.
– RACADM Command Line—Select to run the RACADM commands on the remote system.
4. Based on your selection in the preceding step, provide the following:
– If you selected Remote Server Administrator Command, then provide command, SSH port number, and
select Generate Trusted Key for Linux if you want to generate a trusted key.
– If you selected Generic Command, RACADM Command Line, or IPMI Command then provide command and
append output information. Providing the append output information is optional.
5. On Task Target, do one of the following:
– Select a query from the drop-down list or create a new query by clicking the New button.
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