If you're interested in a commercial product that does approximately the same function, take a look at Aduva (www.aduva.com). Their product maintains a database of what RPM packages, at what VRM level, are installed on each server in a server farm. Then when an RPM package is updated, the product automatically installs and configures the new patch on each server that needs it, and restarts the server. If other installed packages on a server need to be updated as well, Aduva handles that as well.
There's a rumor that they are porting this application over to z/VM to support large Linux virtual server farms. Dave Jones > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > Wolfe, Gordon W > Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 5:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Automated PUT > > > When I get some service or updates done to my test Linux server, that's > actually the easy part. Then I have to move it around to more > than a dozen > other Linux servers, logging on to each one in turn and doing an FTP "get" > for each file on each server. As I get more servers running, this problem > will only get worse. > > I'd like to automate this, with a single script to consult a list > of servers > and a list of files to be placed on each server. Then with a > single command > from my central distribution server, I could automatically update files on > all the other servers. This presumes a service userid with the same > password on all servers, changed frequently. > > Is there anything like "wget", except doing "puts" instead of "gets"? Is > there anything else I might use? I really want to have to avoid > logging on > to each and every server. Bonus if it would preserve ownership and > permissions. > > > > "You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to > skydive twice." -Motto of the Darwin Society > Gordon W. Wolfe, Ph.D. (425) 865-5940 > VM Technical Services, The Boeing Company >
