How to Ping to a server with an IP address?

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Hi ,
Right now i am using Putty to login to the server with my credentials. I am passing the command in shell. I want to ping the server directly through UiPath and the commands to get the components table back in as response.
Can please someone help me with this.

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@subham.dey

Please check

https://forum.uipath.com/t/how-to-active-ssh-client-such-as-putty-via-the-package-sshconnector/230337/3

Cheers

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Hi @subham.dey

Please refer the below thread which is having the direct activity

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HI,

How about using System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping class?

FYI

Regards,

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Hi @Anil_G ,
Thanks for the referrence, this really helped. Just have some more questions, after running a particular command in Putty i get a Component table displayed over in Putty.
How do i get the table back as a response and store that in a datatable while sending the commands through the SSH activities.

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@subham.dey

It can send only text result as of now…check how you are getting it may be generate datatable can be used to convert to table based on how the text looks

Cheers

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@Anil_G ,
Okay.
Can you please help me on. how do i receive the text results?

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@subham.dey

Activity has an output variable which would save the response as text

Cheers

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Thanks @Anil_G ,
That was of great help but now i am getting an error.
Message: Ssh error: Timeout 30s executing sudo -u icsadqa -i
Expected Regex: [a-zA-Z0-9_.-]@[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]
Received text: (/home/k1001285)$ sudo -u icsadqa -i
Password:, code: exception, command: sudo -u icsadqa -i
Which i believe is because SSH activity is not equipped to handle interactive password prompts.
Can you suggest any solution to this?

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@subham.dey

Yes it cannot…ideally the password needs to be given i the scope itself to connect and it would validate the welcome message with a regex

Can you give the creds in scope itself?

Cheers

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Yeah, I have provided the password in the scope. But here whenever i run this particular command, it asks for the password again. So not sure how the password is to be passed there.

Thanks!

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@subham.dey

Currently I dont think you have that option enabled in these activities

The image provides a detailed description of the SSHConnectScopeActivity, explaining its role in establishing a connection to a remote SSS server, authentication requirements, and the use of Shell Expected Prompt for validating welcome messages and subsequent SSH commands. (Captioned by AI)
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There is a specific shell expected prompt to be provided

Cheers

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