1.3. JBoss ON CLI Scripts and JBoss ON Server Scripts
There are two major ways to access the remote API: through the JBoss ON CLI and through a separate JBoss ON server script.
The scripts themselves are more or less identical, with the exception of some methods that are available when the JBoss ON CLI is run interactively. Both CLI scripts and server-side scripts are written in JavaScript and use the remote API primarily, with support from the domain API for tasks like searches.
The main difference is in how the scripts are invoked:
- The JBoss ON CLI can be run manually, execute a script file, and even be invoked automatically by a system tool like cron. The CLI can connect to to any JBoss ON server and can be run remotely.Essentially, the CLI is a script execution engine. It exposes the remote API in a scripting language, which makes it more convenient to interact dynamically the JBoss ON server.
- Server-side scripts are uploaded into a content repository, managed in the JBoss ON server database, and are then invoked in response to a fired alert. Even though the server-side scripts are located on the server, they still use the same APIs to communicate with the server as other CLI scripts.
There is no way to define a dependency on another JBoss ON script or to pull in functions defined in a utility script. The CLI allows you to load multiple scripts into a session using the
exec command:
$ login -u rhqadmin -p rhqadmin $ exec -f samples/util.js $ exec /opt/my-scripts/mySupportScript.js $ exec /opt/my-scripts/myScript.js
With a server-side script, all required functions must be included in the script itself because the server runs the script on itself, locally. There is no session to load outside scripts in.
