Hi Monks,

There is one situation where I want to execute msiexec command line on remote machine using Net::Telnet.

When I execute some simple ipconfig/hostname like commands, I get proper output. but when I execute msiexec with multiple long parameters, it doesn't work. Please see below script-

use Net::Telnet;
BEGIN { $|=1 }
$user = "administrator";
$pass = 'abc';

$telnet = new Net::Telnet ( Timeout=>20, Errmode=>'die', Prompt => '/[
+%#>] ?$/', Dump_Log=>"dumplogs.txt", Input_log=>"inputlogs.txt", Outp
+ut_log=>"outputlogs.txt");

$telnet->open('xx.xx.xx.xx');
$telnet->login(Name=>$user, Password=>$pass, Prompt=>'/[%#>:] ?$/');
#$command = qq(msiexec \/qn \/i \\\\yy.yy.yy.yy\\SEP_Builds\\Jaguar\\I
+ntegration\\940\\DVD-SEP-EE\\SEPx64\\Sep64.msi \/norestart RUNLIVEUPD
+ATE=0 \/l\*v C:\\Compatibility_Automation_Temp\\SepClientInstallLog.t
+xt);
$command = q(msiexec /i \\\\yy.yy.yy.yy\SEP_Builds\Jaguar\Integration\
+940\DVD-SEP-EE\SEPx64\Sep64.msi /norestart RUNLIVEUPDATE=0 /l*v C:\Co
+mpatibility_Automation_Temp\SepClientInstallLog.txt);
#$command = q(msiexec /q /i \\\\yy.yy.yy.yy\SEP_Builds\Jaguar\Integrat
+ion\940\DVD-SEP-EE\SEPx64\Sep64.msi /norestart RUNLIVEUPDATE=0);
#$command = "ipconfig  && net use J: \\\\yy.yy.yy.yy\\Public_Share\\Ta
+run";
print "command is: [$command]\n";
@output = $telnet->cmd(String=>$command);

=cut
@output = $telnet->cmd(join ' ',
            'C:\Windows\System32\msiexec.exe', '/q', '/i',
            "\\\\yy.yy.yy.yy\\SEP_Builds\\Jaguar\\Integration\\940\\DV
+D-SEP-EE\\SEPx64\\Sep64.msi",
            '/norestart', 'RUNLIVEUPDATE=0', '/l*v',
            'C:\Compatibility_Automation_Temp\SepClientInstallLog.txt'
+);
=cut
print "output is:\n@output\n";

exit;

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Here, I've tried different ways to create my command line, but, none of them worked. From my local machine, when I execute this script, output shows command ran successfully on remote machine yy.yy.yy.yy but when I check it personally on yy.yy.yy.yy machine, this command didn't get executed there. Then I ran the same command on remote machine which i'm able to see inside "inputlogs.txt" file and it ran successfully.

While investing more on this, I ran a command to map my shared network drive on remote machine. you can also see this command in the above code(I've commented out that line #$command = "ipconfig  && net use J: \\\\yy.yy.yy.yy\\Public_Share\\Tarun";). Here also, I get "command completed successfully" message in inputlogs.txt wherein I didn't see any mapped network drive on rempte machine later.

Can anybody please help me out?? I would really appreciate any help or suggestion.

In reply to Need to Execute msiexec using Net::Telnet by tarunmudgal4u

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