For Quality purpouses, Thind, Aman 's mail on Thursday 05 February 2004 06:24 may have been monitored or recorded as: > Hello Friends, Hi
> I want to write a script that when executed will get lots of details from > 10 different Unix(AIX) and Windows(XP) boxes and generate a report. > > The details to be gathered about the machines include : > > 1) Names and versions of all the softwares on the machines. > > 2) Disk space usage. > > Etc... my ideas: either see if you can get these information from each of these machines by establishing a telnet or ssh connection to them and remotly executing commands (maybe own perlscripts) on the remote machines - Net::Telnet from CPAN allows you client side connections using the telnet protocol. Net::SSH goes for ssh. Or - but that gets complicated: write client and server side software using IO::Socket and establish your own commands. Since you will probably need OS depending software on the remote machines anyway to get you infos I would go with the first solution. Also take a look at the available remote backup solutions on the net: maybe you find something to modify. But maybe you first want to see how OS dependend your queries are and what "lots" means: your network admin might appreciate the idea of localy generating the reports and sending them to the query machine at once instead of generating them by remotly executing commands. I think, whether you go with a centralisied or local solution depends on how often you expect to change the details you want to query and the frequency in which new systems and OSs are added to your net. If seldom or never, you might think of generating the reports localy and mailing them independently to the query machine (eg, via email). If frequently, then you might not want to run arround and change your local scripts everytime - see first ideas. You see: it gets out of hand - i better stop here. good luck, Wolf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
