On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 11:54 -0400, Xn Nooby wrote:
Is there a standard way to remotely manage 100+ SUSE boxes? The machines are NLPOS9, which is based on SLES9, which is in turn based on SUSE 9.1. I need a way to remotely administer them, with cheaper solutions being ideal.
The problem is having to individually log in and tweak things on 100+ boxes. The administration tasks would be applying security updates, and working with files for custom applications.
I believe I can do this with two shell scripts, a "control" script and a "job" script. The control script would copy (via scp) and remotely run (via SSH) the job script to a list of servers stored in an ASCII file. Is this the standard way of doing this?
Any suggestions?
http://www.novell.com/products/zenworks/ However I more often then not I have a box that can passwordless SSH into my servers and run commands over that. If all boxes are configured identically then it works very well. But if I was managing lots of workstations where the configuration was different (OS too) then I think ZenWorks is great as it integrates very well with SUSE. M. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org