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:

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

$ 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.