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place holder "password" to use in my custom sensors

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There is any placeholder like "%password" that contains the ssh device's password and that can be used in parameters of my custom exe sensors? I need to run a special remote command by ssh in my vbscript and I've to insert remote password too..

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linux password placeholders ssh

Created on Feb 23, 2011 9:40:44 PM

Last change on Feb 24, 2011 1:36:25 PM by Daniel Zobel [Product Manager]



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The placeholder in case is:

%linuxpassword

More detail is available in the API documentation under the Custom Sensors tab.

If you want to use this placeholder within the script, please notice you would need to turn on the environment variables option.

Created on Feb 24, 2011 1:57:37 PM by Patrick Hutter [Paessler Support] (7,225) ●3 ●3




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