Symantec ESM: how to automate policy runs on the manager?

From: Tonij (tonij67_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 05/11/04 

Date: 11 May 2004 09:37:26 -0700

Hi all,

I have ESM 6.0 running on Solaris 9. I know that I can schedule jobs
to run from the console, but when I do it that way I end up with
reports on my pc. Instead, I would like to find a way to run them on
the manager itself (or the agent, which is another Solaris system) and
send the output to a file that can be downloaded/emailed from either
the agent or the manager.

I know I can do this from the cli, but as far as I can tell I would
have to set up an expect script or something to do this, which leaves
the option of having a password in plain text somewhere because you
have to login to the ESM manager before you can do
anything...obviously I don't want to do that.

I checked the knowledge base at symantecs site but it only really
covers bugs/problems and the users guide I have seems to lean more
towards the Windows side of things. I want all of this to happen on
either the agent or the manager, not from my pc running the console.

So this is a summary of what I hope to accomplish with ESM:

- schedule periodic policy runs on an agent
- send the output of these runs to a text file on either the manager
or agent (preferably the agent)
- make the file available by whatever means (email, scp, etc...)

TIA,

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