[TriLUG] Issuing a command to multiple machines simultaneously

[Paul G. Szabady]

We use puppet at $WORK.  It's not simultaneous, but you can configure 
things centrally and all servers can be updated within "x" period of 
time.  Ours is set to finish updates within 20 mins to ~50 servers.  It 
has all kinds of capabilities, including checks for packages and 
installation of needed or removal if unwanted, etc...  For example, if 
you decide to maintain sendmail.mc locally, you'd want the sendmail-cf rpm.

Cheers!

--
Paul
@ Thy Service


Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Paul McLanahan <pmclanahan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>  I'd like to setup a system that will allow
>> me to issue the command in a client of some type, which will cause the
>> command to run of all of the machines, and send the output back to me.
>> I've seen this done in the past, but I can not seem find how it was
>> done, and my googling has turned up a couple of rsh tutorials, but
>> unless I'm missing something, just rsh isn't going to get this done.
> 
> I haven't used it, but I've heard at least two people swear by Puppet:
> 
> http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/
> 
> Maybe they'll pipe up...
> 
> Cheers,