If you want to post XML data to webservices wich need pre-authentication you need a workaround, because vCO does not support this feature.
In my case, I had to post XML data to CA unicenter without activated SOAP interface, only authenticated post was available. So I wrote this little app XMLpost and call it from vCO.
Parameters, case sensitive, free order:
User: user for webservice
PWD: user's password
URL: URL to post data
POST: the post
Log: (optional) filename for logging the webservice response
Example call:
XMLpost.exe User=<user> PWD=<pwd> URL=http://webservice/samplepost POST=XMLDATA=<tag>only a example</tag> Log=C:\\MCS\\XMLpost.txt
Example workflow:
Exit codes:
0 all fine (for XMLpost, webservice not recognized)
1 user not found or empty
2 PWD not found or empty
3 URL not found or empty
4 POST not found or empty
5 error on HTTP request
6 error on stream writing
Planned development:
optional adding of HTTP result on ExitCode (exit codes above 100 = HTTP result + 100)
event logging
Requirements:
enable local execution
Optional execution
use VIX-Plugin to run it on a seperate host if you don't want to modify your vCO configuration
Feel free to use this app. Please just inform me, if you want to use it in production or for commercial use.
Comments are welcome.
