A while back I was asked by a colleague if I could automate starting a number of SSH connections based on the current selection in ARD. This may seem pointless given that you can run UNIX commands in ARD but it is not. With SSH you get an interactive shell; quite different from just being able to send commands and receive a sample of the response!
The applescript is below. I launch the script using QuickSilver but you could put a copy in your Dock or in your Scripts folder (~/Library/Scripts) if you use the Scripts menu item.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | tell application "Remote Desktop" set the_result to display dialog ¬ "Username: " default answer ¬ "admin" with icon 1 ¬ buttons {"Cancel", "Connect"} ¬ default button "Connect" set button_pressed to button returned of the_result set text_typed to text returned of the_result if (count of text_typed) > 0 then set ssh_command to "ssh " & text_typed & "@" else set ssh_command to "ssh " end if if button_pressed is "Connect" then set sel to selection repeat with i from 1 to length of sel set this_ip to Internet address of item i of sel tell application "Terminal" activate do script ssh_command & this_ip end tell end repeat end if end tell |
