Cannot run kill -9 through pyvomi on ESXi host

[nicktx]

Hi all,

Hopefully someone can assist. I have a python script that uses pyvomi to connect to an ESXi host. I'm trying to run a "kill -9" command and it's not running. I have attached the output from running the script. It isn't erroring out so I'm not sure why it ran the first command but not the second.

# https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54400977/trigger-host-custom-shell-command-using-vmware-sdk
# enables and disables SSH, does not require SSH to be started initially
# pip install vmwc paramiko

from pyVim.connect import SmartConnect
from pyVmomi import vim
from getpass import getpass
from vmwc import VMWareClient
import paramiko


def main():
    host = '1.1.1.1'
    username = 'root'
    password = getpass()

    with VMWareClient(host, username, password) as client:
        client.enable_ssh()

        ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
        ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
        ssh.connect(host, username=username, password=password)
        
        remote_ssh_command = "ps | grep sshd | awk '{print $2}' | head -1" # Your remote command
        stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command(remote_ssh_command)
        tempvar1=stdout.read().decode('utf-8')
        print(tempvar1)

        output = stdout.read().decode('utf-8')
        print(f"Output: {output}")
        error = stderr.read().decode('utf-8')
        print(f"Error: {error}")


        remote_ssh_command2 = f'echo kill -9 {tempvar1}'
        stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command(remote_ssh_command2)
        tempvar2=stdout.read().decode('utf-8')
        print(tempvar2)

        output = stdout.read().decode('utf-8')
        print(f"Output: {output}")
        error = stderr.read().decode('utf-8')
        print(f"Error: {error}")

        client.disable_ssh() # optional in case you want to close the ssh access


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

[nicktx]

I didn't notice the "echo" command:

remote_ssh_command2 = f'echo kill -9 {tempvar1}'

I removed that and now it's working.