A customer responsible for administering ~20 DataMiner clusters is looking for an efficient way to deploy packages. These systems are not cloud-connected, and the packages that need to be installed are not available in the Catalog.
I thought we could use Taskbar Utility command line options | DataMiner Docs, but quickly encountered some showstoppers.
The Taskbar Utility does not allow connecting to a remote DMA. I was under the impression there was a field where I could enter the hostname/IP address, but I could not find it.
The Taskbar Utility command line options | DataMiner Docs don’t seem to have a command to connect to a remote DMA either.
The goal is to deploy dmprotocol and dmapp packages from a single computer to all DataMiner clusters. Ideally we can achieve that using a command line tool that can be utilized in a script as part of DevOps workflows.
Please share your thoughts and suggestions.
Hi Miguel,
As far as I know it is not possible to connect remotely to a DMA using the taskbar utility. However, you can use the Client Test Tool to connect to a remote DMA.
That being said, you could potentially deploy a .dmapp package using the option Advanced -> Apps -> AppPackages. I performed an initial test and I was able to deploy a package in a remote DMA. However, I will recommend performing additional tests. Unfortunately, AppPackages does not support .dmprotocol packages.
Another approach is to create a batch (or powershell) script that can execute remotely the CLI options of the taskbar utility.
Hope it helps.