By mere good fortune, recent experiments in conjuration had ensnared me this imp
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Wait, what? A utility that runs commands via ssh and then emits REST calls? You can do that in bash!
Yes, you certainly can. But this is portable and can run on a toaster as long as it has python3. And it has imps. I hope you are now imprest!
Paramiko is used for implementing the ssh client connections to remote hosts. You can install it manually on Debian/Ubuntu, as follows:
sudo apt-get install python3-paramiko
No, not really. Any OS with a working python3.6+ installation will do.
Look under the /conf folder for a sample config file. You can add as many task entries as you like, just number them incrementally, as per the sample. The right number of imps will be summoned automatically.
I've written a separate module to encrypt the ssh user passwords of the monitored hosts using a master password. To generate the encrypted text that you need to add in the config file just run pi_password.py and follow the on-screen prompts.
Why, yes. Why bother with passwords anyway, right? You'll need to set:
ssh_key_authentication = true
In the .conf file and provide the path to your private ssh key. Doing so will make pi_imprest ignore all (if any) host password entries. Note that you'll have to take care of propagating the key yourself and configuring a working ssh setup between the local host and your imp hosts.
