XML / RDM data source format

Hi,
Unfortunately we don't have a documentation for the format. You can use PowerShell to do it quickly:

http://forum.devolutions.net/forum42-remote-desktop-manager--powershell-repository.aspx

If you really want to generate the Xml manually, you can use the Copy/Paste functionality to quickly get the format. Paste each session type you want to import in notepad to see the format.

Yey! A really fast answer! Very kind!

I'll follow your hints and hopefully i'll end with a solution, thanks!
edited by pierqr.aiello on 12/23/2013

Have a look at this topic, we have another user asking the (almost) same question.

http://forum.devolutions.net/topic9722-import-with-other-fields.aspx

Regards,

Thanks again!

Ok first problem. Kudos for your choice of safing crypted passwords in the xml. But unless you want to share the encryption algorithm (so i can generate compliant "SafePasswords" ) i need an XML tag for unencrypted passwords. I tried with the tags "Password" and "UnsafePassword" but these didn't work.

Any help?

Thanks!

Hi,
You can use the tag ClearTextPassword to include an unencrypted password.

Ok i used it! (i have to avoid tags because the forum is not happy with them) But the password is not shown in the GUI :(

"Connection"
"ConnectionType"Putty"/ConnectionType"
"Group"FIRST\1st"/Group"
"Name"a putty conn"/Name"
"Putty"
"Host"192.168.252.128"/Host"
"LoginName"root"/LoginName"
"Port"22"/Port"
"ProtocolType"SSH"/ProtocolType"
"ClearTextPassword"root"/ClearTextPassword"
"UseSession"false"/UseSession"
"/Putty"
"/Connection"

Sorry for the repeated question but i have to understand the system at the start.

Could you attach your sample?

http://pastebin.com/We4h9shS

or the attachment.

Thanks for your time.

Hi,
I've found two issues:

1. The field ID was missing. This needs to be a unique Guid: http://www.guidgenerator.com/

2. ClearTextPassword was inside the Putty bracket but it's need to be directly inside of Connection

Regards

Thanks again! I'll try with the new information ASAP.

Ok, i added the IDs and the clear password child under the connection section, still no useful result.

With safepassword there is no problem, with cleartextPassword i see nothing in the GUI.

Now the passwords in the csv are not encrypted and the datasource without the passwords will be of little use :( .

Hi,
I've just tried your data source and it works fine for me with the ClearTextPassword.

You mean, does it show the password in the "password" field in the GUI?

Nice. So there is something that doesn't work with my RDM. But whatever, if i have the assurance that it works, i'll start to write the converter (because storing correctly the password is a huge need for the task).

Hopefully i will write again here not with new question but with a first version for the converter (be aware that since RDM allows to store a lot of details in a lot of possible configurations, for now i'm using just the basic fields).

Yes it does. I was able to see it with the reveal password. What version of RDM do you use?

Version 7.6.3.0

Ah this might explain the problem. Could you try with the latest version?

Sure i can, but then all the office should change version. I will update the version after the first iteration (i do small iteration) of the converter and i will update the status here. Thanks a lot for the interest.

And i guess that sooner i will post the link to the code repository (that for now doesn't exist).

OT
I love to share useful tools if these can be copied with ease without destroying the original (so more person can use it), but i don't know if i will be beaten for this xD.

Free knowledge ftw.
/OT

Small update. The cleartextPassword works correctly. I imported the datasource (just instead of selecting it as datasource, i imported it as .rdm and everything worked).

And i wrote the link to the git repository in the first post.
edited by pierqr.aiello on 1/3/2014
edited by pierqr.aiello on 1/3/2014

Ok the converter, in a very basic version, is completed.