Sends text to the terminal starting at the current cursor position during an established Terminal session. This action can be set to wait until the terminal is ready to receive the next command before sending text. Used to send text into an existing terminal session that was previously created by Connect Terminal action. The terminal actions are used in leu of terminal emulation software. Using the terminal actions, legacy systems can be automated in the background without the use of third-party software.
Declaration
<AMSENDTERMTEXT SESSION="text" WAITFORDEFAULTPROMPT="text [options]">text</AMSENDTERMTEXT>
Example 1 - This sample step sends the following text "This is the text to send" to terminal session "MyTermSess." It is set to wait before and after the default prompt appears.
<AMSENDTERMTEXT SESSION="MyTermSess" WAITFORDEFAULTPROMPT="BOTH">This is the text to send.</AMSENDTERMTEXT>
Example 2 - A example that uses all available terminal actions. Examining the step parameters and properties of this task may assist you in creating your own terminal emulation task.
<AMVARIABLE NAME="thePassword">password</AMVARIABLE>
<AMCONNECTTERM EMULATION="VT220" HOST="linux.networkautomation.com" SHOWTERMINALWINDOW="YES" />
<AMWAITFORTERMTEXT TYPE="TEXT">login:</AMWAITFORTERMTEXT>
<AMSENDTERMTEXT>%theUsername%{ENTER}</AMSENDTERMTEXT>
<AMSHOWDIALOG>OK to proceed?</AMSHOWDIALOG>
<AMWAITFORTERMTEXT TYPE="TEXT">Password:</AMWAITFORTERMTEXT>
<AMSENDTERMTEXT>%thePassword%{ENTER}</AMSENDTERMTEXT>
<AMSHOWDIALOG>OK to proceed?</AMSHOWDIALOG>
<AMDISCONNECTTERM />
See Also: Connect Terminal, Disconnect Terminal, Send Terminal Text, Wait Terminal, Control Terminal
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Property |
Type |
Required |
Default |
Markup |
Description |
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Text |
Text |
Yes |
(Empty) |
>Smith</AMSENDTERMTEXT> |
The text to send to the terminal. For example, if the terminal prompt was requesting a last name, this parameter could be "Smith" (no quotes). |
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Session Name |
Text |
No |
TermSess1 |
SESSION="MyTermSession" |
The session name to send this text to. This session name must have been previously created with a prior Connect Terminal step. This allows several connections to be active simultaneously. If you are only using one connection at a time, you can leave this parameter set to the default value -TermSess1. |
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Wait for default prompt |
Text (options) |
No |
Do not wait |
WAITFORDEFAULTPROMPT="BEFORE" |
Specifies whether task execution should pause before and/or after text is sent to the terminal and wait for the appearance of the default prompt. Often, this option is needed to cause the task to wait until the terminal is ready to receive the next command before sending text. The available options are:
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