Rundeck DCOM Plugin

This is a Rundeck Node Execution plugin that uses DCOM to connect to Windows and execute commands. The plugin is based on the j-Interop open source library making cross-platform operations possible (i.e. you can run commands on Windows boxes from a non-Windows Rundeck server).

The NodeExecutor service is implemented using the WshShell (WScript.Shell) Windows Script Host (WSH) COM object's Exec method to run Windows programs, capture their output and error streams and report their exit code.

Install

Copy the rundeck-dcom-plugin-1.0.jar to the libext/ directory for Rundeck.

Configure The Plugin

Generate the encrypted password:

 [rundeck@centos62 libext]$ java -classpath rundeck-windcom-plugin.jar com.dtolabs.rundeck.plugin.windcom.CryptUtil /tmp/key.file Administrator '!1qazxsw2@'

 [INFO]: file: "/tmp/key.file" created.
 
 [INFO]: place the following in your project "resource.xml" file:
 <node ... key-file-path="/tmp/key.file"
           username="Administrator"
           password="tIt3fAtgAgLjY7CcIJMVwHIikwiA/WP1CBcPM9qAwbw=" .../>
 
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Setup the node entry:

 <project>
   <node name="localhost" description="Rundeck server node" tags="" hostname="localhost" osArch="amd64" osFamily="unix" osName="Linux" osVersion="2.6.32-220.el6.x86_64" username="rundeck"/>
   <node name="win2008" description="Windows 2008 server node" tags="" hostname="win2008" osArch="" osFamily="" osName="" osVersion="" username="Administrator" domain="win2008" password="tIt3fAtgAgLjY7CcIJMVwHIikwiA/WP1CBcPM9qAwbw=" key-file-path="/tmp/key.file"/>
 </project>

Configure a Windows Server for DCOM

Enabling DCOM access varies depending on the version of Windows you're using. This Technet article applies to the more recent releases. This article on Configuring DCOM for Remote Access outlines the various authentication levels and security permissions that have to be set.

Build

Build with gradle

Prerequisites: the rundeck-core-1.4.x.jar file should be placed in the lib directory.

Gradle build, result is build/libs/rundeck-windcom-plugin-1.0.jar.

gradle clean build

Getting the Rundeck core jar

If you're building the plug-in independently of Rundeck itself you can find the Rundeck core jar in a couple of places under your Rundeck install. e.g:

[rundeck@centos62 ~]$ find . -name rundeck-core-\*.jar
./cli/rundeck-core-1.4.4-dev.jar
./exp/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/rundeck-core-1.4.4-dev.jar