At 03:51 PM 9/26/01 -0400, Derrick (Thrawn01) wrote:
>I've been the task of designing a remote maintenance system, for several
> maybe hundreds ) of computers across a WAN.
>It would preferably be a web application so multiple users can operate the
>maintnce on several systems simultaneously.
>
>The problem I have is with running commands on the remote system.
>Hoping to pool from the wealth of experience displayed on this List.
>Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could easily, ( WITH OUT TONS OF
>CODING )
This may be a premature optimization that costs you dearly in the long
run. Design it right to begin with. That may or may not involve what you
consider to be a lot of coding, but you shouldn't shy away from the
possibility that that would be the best way to do it.
>Run command line programs on a remote computer, and get the output returned
>to the calling Web app?
I'd suggest SOAP myself, to minimize authentication issues. There's also
Stem (http://www.stemsystems.com) which could be easier.
>Via Telnet of some kind?
>RPC ? ( I looked at RPC, but it seams I'd have to program a server app, with
>a server running on each
> Remote computer, Would this be difficult? Would Telnet be
> practical ? )
>
>I'm a novice perl programmer, but I've done some web apps with sql. using
>DBI. Not any Server network type apps or
>anything.
>
>
>THANK's For any advice.
>
>
>
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