Plugin Support in IECTL

Introduction

IECTL plugin can extend iectl with new sub commands. A plugin should be standalone binary which can be placed at $HOME/.iectl/plugins. Plugin binary name should start with "ie". Right now it comes with two default plugins:

• Publisher
• Provision

Standalone Executable Plugin

• Create a standalone executable binary
• windows allowed formats are ".bat", ".cmd", ".com", ".exe", ".ps1"
• linux all kind of executable files are allowed

• Example Plugin: Below is the example of sample of a plugin, Copy the content given below and save as ie-config-plugin and place your plugin at $HOME/.iectl/plugins/ie-config-plugin OR set environment variable EDGE_PLUGINS with user defined folder path.

  #!/bin/bash
  
  iedUser=$1
  iedPw=$2
  iedUrl=$3
  iemPw=$4
  iemUrl=$5
  iemUser=$6
  
  iectl config add iem --user $iemUser --password $iemPw --url $iemUrl --name "mytestIEM"
  iectl config add device --user $iedUser --password $iedPw --url $iedUrl --name "mytestIED"
  
  echo "Test config added"
  

• Usage:

iectl ie-config-plugin  "iemuser@iem.com" "iedpassword" "https://ied.com" "iempassword" "https://iemurl.com" "iem@iem.com"