Need a script that runs commands remotely...

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Hey everyone, I have no experience with any scripting language that's why I'm coming for help . Here is the scenario: There are about 40 Linux machines (I'm gonna call these "clients") in a lab. There is one machine (I'm gonna call this "server") dedicated to store information about all those 40 machines that are constantly running. I need a script that will log into each of those "client" machines run some commands such as smartctl and iostat, to collect disk information from them and save that information in a text file resident in that one "server" machine. I imagine there would be one file per "client" and the file name would have the machine name, command run, and time stamp.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

[TheeMahn]

Hey everyone, I have no experience with any scripting language that's why I'm coming for help . Here is the scenario: There are about 40 Linux machines (I'm gonna call these "clients") in a lab. There is one machine (I'm gonna call this "server") dedicated to store information about all those 40 machines that are constantly running. I need a script that will log into each of those "client" machines run some commands such as smartctl and iostat, to collect disk information from them and save that information in a text file resident in that one "server" machine. I imagine there would be one file per "client" and the file name would have the machine name, command run, and time stamp.

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

pretty heavy, I would start by generating IP's of each comp pipe it to a text file, this will be the list in which the script will hit, I am assuming the "server" has execution rights on the "clients" end.

now it starts to become easy parse each ip samba / nfs? well I guess not so easy a failure routine if using samba for example would have to be written piping all output to the main server. I would make the script output the file to a txt file as per ip.

You have asked more then I have the time to write, yes it can be done, I do not get paid enough to write it

TheeMahn

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Thank you for the reply. I guess, all I would need is some tips on how to do this (not the script written for me) or maybe someone has something similar that I could tweak it to work for me. I made this post because I have never had any experience with any kind of scripting language, but I know that that easiest way would be to do it in something like a regular bash script or Perl. That idea about a file with all the IPs or something like a regular host file in Linux, is a good idea that I was actually thinking of. I guess my problem is making it happen, so all I ask is some tips and a pointer in the right direction on how to do this. Thanks again for the response.