[olug] Automating killing a *nix process from a windows box

[Dave Rowe]

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:41 AM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is the problem. We have error logs spitting out on Windows boxes
> about GoldenGate processes locking up on a Solaris box. This is a
> known bug that GoldenGate is hoping to fix in their next release. The
> Solaris team has told me these logs aren't visible from the Solaris
> boxes, despite the fact that is where GoldenGate is actually running.
> I don't exactly believe that, but I have to go off what they tell me.
>
> If the logs appeared on the Solaris boxes themselves, I could write a
> script that would watch the log, try to see the error message, pull
> out the PID and then kill the process. But the logs are only in our
> Windows environment.
>
> I've been trying to ask our Solaris team if the Solaris boxes have
> postfix or any type of mail server running, where we could send an
> email to those boxes with a PID to kill. But they don't seem to know
> anything about the systems they are running.
>
> I do believe there are tools where I can pass commands into a putty
> session, but what would be the best way to automate the process of
> either watching a log or reading an email in Windows, pulling out a
> PID, and then passing it to the script that will run putty, and thusly
> the kill command?
>
> -- T. J. Brumfield

Could you install Cygwin on the Windows box?  That'd give you
'bash'-style access to the logs, thus, you could watch the logs, pull
the PID, then execute your command using SSH built-into Cygwin, right?

-Dave