[TriLUG] Issuing a command to multiple machines simultaneously

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Puppet is the deadly ninja to CFEngine's 18th-century redcoat.

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Paul G. Szabady wrote:
> 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!
>
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> Paul
> @ Thy Service
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> Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
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>> On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Paul McLanahan <pmclanahan at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>  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,
>>     
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