I haven't but one of my friends have used Pyro (Python Remote Objects) to do so.
You basically need to write a custom Pyro server and run it on a central machine. Your pyro clients can be installed on the machines where the software need to be installed. For more details and similar ideas refer the project page of pyro at http://pyro.sourceforge.net/projects.html . -Anand -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
