How to program in Python to run system commands in 1000s of servers

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 07.04.2011 21:14, schrieb Anssi Saari:
> Chris Angelico<rosuav at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> Depending on what exactly is needed, it might be easier to run a
>> separate daemon on the computers, one whose sole purpose is to do the
>> task / get the statistics needed and return them. Then the Python
>> script need only collect each program's returned response.
>
> Those would still need to be deployed somehow to the thousands of
> machines though.

But only once...


> I realized after posting that something like pexpect might work for
> stuffing the keystrokes needed to root login via ssh to all machines
> and such... If that's what he needs to do, since it wasn't very clear.

Maybe that works. But it is much, much worse than using keys...


Thomas