× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.



Hi All

I have a situation where I have a number of systems (10+) that I need to be
running commands on every now and then and I was curious as to the
approaches others took when running commands across multiple systems.

The servers are a mix of i and p LPARs (but let's primarily stick to the i
LPARs for the purposes of this exercise) running on top of VIOS and with a
HMC managing them.

It seems that something like the AIX dsh command would be really handy, but
I wondered what other options were out there and why they were preferred. I
would really like to capture the output instead of having it roll out in a
spool file that I have to somehow also get back to check successor failure.

Options I have available to me:
(1) Sign on to every system and manually do stuff system by system
(2) SSH is running on all systems, so connect via SSH from some central
place (NIM Server ?) and run a command
(3) Ops Navigator via the Mgmt Central Task stuff
(4) Navigator for i (does that have anything comparable)
(5) Nominate a central i server and use one of SSH, RunRmtCmd
(6) Write a script somewhere central and use ODBC or SSH to run on multiple
systems (Python ? Perl ?)
(7) Run a command or script via SSH from central HMC
(8) Some kind of SCOM tooling (looking at SCOM for monitoring)
(9) SNADS solution of some kind....
(10) something else I have not thought of

I am kind of interested in commercial solutions but most unlikely to buy
anything. I don't really want to add another sever into the mix, I'd rather
run it centrally on one of the existing platforms.

I am interested in how others have "cracked this nut" so feel free to share
how you are doing this now or have done it in the past



As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

This thread ...

Follow-Ups:

Follow On AppleNews
Return to Archive home page | Return to MIDRANGE.COM home page

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.