esmdl

esmdl is a Ruby gem that provides a command line interface that replicates (some of) the release download functionality of Ellucian Solutions Manager. It is not authored or supported by Ellucian and does not provide any of the installation of provisioning functionality of ESM.

It is intended to be used by licensed ellucian customers to download available releases without requiring the installation of ESM.

Install is simply:

$ gem install esmdl

The only required configuration parameters are the username and password of an Ellucian Download Center account. This can either be supplied in the file ~/.esmdl:

username: "myusername"
password: "!s3cr3t*"

or via the command line arguments --username and --password. The other available configuration values are esmversion (defaults to 1.8), stage_dir (defaults to './'), and base_url. Command line parameters override any parameters from ~/.esmdl.

Downloading a release, associated documentation, and ESM installation metadata:

$ esmdl get --name=general-admin-9020020u.trz --docs --metadata
Starting download of general-admin-9020020u.trz...done! (201.44 MiB)
Starting download of general-admin-9020020d.trz...done! (1.35 MiB)
Starting download of general-admin-9020020u.zip...done! (2.66 KiB)

Finding available releases is done through the list subcommand.

Listing available licensed products:

$ esmdl list products
BMUI: BMUI Banner Multi Upgrade Installer
BNR_ADMCOM: Banner Admin Common
BNR_ADV: Banner Advancement
...

Filtering that list:

$ esmdl list products --filter=student
BNR_STU: Banner Student
BNR_STUSS: Banner Student Self-Service
BXE_ETRANS: Banner Student eTranscript
...

Listing available releases for a given product:

$ esmdl list releases --product=BNR_STU
Banner Student Upgrade 8.5.5 (stu80505u.trz) - BNR_STU -2012-11-15
Banner Student Upgrade 8.5.6 (stu80506u.trz) - BNR_STU -2013-02-15
Banner Student Upgrade 8.5.7 (stu80507u.trz) - BNR_STU -2013-05-31
...

Or by filter:

$ esmdl list releases --filter=admin
Banner Admin Document Management 9.2.0.18 (extsol-admin-9020018u.trz) - BNR_DMS -2016-03-14
Banner Admin Finance 9.2.0.18 (finance-admin-9020018u.trz) - BNR_FIN -2016-03-14
Banner Admin Position Control 9.2.0.18 (posnctl-admin-9020018u.trz) - BNR_POSCTL -2016-03-14
Banner Admin Human Resources 9.2.0.18 (payroll-admin-9020018u.trz) - BNR_HRPAY -2016-03-15
...

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/ian-d/esmdl.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.