On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 6:16 AM, Paul DiSciasio <the...@bytemonkey.net> wrote:
> So what I'm looking for is something that allows my clients to run in > dry-run mode most of the time (reporting back to me which things need to > be changed, but not taking any action), and then let me send a message to > them when it's time to actually execute the changes. > > It seems that the best I might be able to do is leave my regular agent > running in dry-run mode all the time, but then ssh into the servers in > question one by one and execute the agent in active mode when I want to > make the changes, but that is obviously cumbersome and has a number of > drawbacks. I wouldn't classify it as cumbersome. You can use a tool like pdsh to fan out your ssh sessions and make this occur in a near real-time fashion. It's more or less described here: https://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/AgentWithSSH What draw backs do you perceive it to have? Travis -- Travis Campbell hcoy...@ghostar.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
