Return the PID used for the Ignition service in Linux install?

[pturmel]

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Establishing SSH Connection from Ignition and executing commands & Python

To run python externally, you need no libraries locally. You need them wherever python will run. In Ignition, I would use java’s normal classes (starting with ProcessBuilder) to spawn your platform’s ssh executable with suitable parameters (to connect to the remote system and launch your script), with a stream attached to the process’ stdout. Parse/decode that stream to get your result. Use SSH keys to avoid any prompts while connecting. I recommend arranging for the selected key to only al…