We're in the process of deploying about 200 SuSE (or maybe Red Hat) workstations out to our remote offices scattered across the US. I need a way that I can easily make changes to the workstations all at once. I've been thinking of a hack that I would write (in Perl) that would go something like this...
1) each workstation would execute a cron job daily that would download a script from our central server each day
2) that script would be executed by another cron job a few minutes later. This script will contain any changes that I need to make. If there aren't any updates for the day, then the script will be blank that day.
Will this work? There has to be something better than this out there. What do you guys do in this situation? For example, we've deployed about 25 workstations out so far, but now I need to change this Perl script on each one of the machines. What is the easiest way to push this script out besides SCP'ing it to each one individually.
Thanks,
Chris
1) each workstation would execute a cron job daily that would download a script from our central server each day
2) that script would be executed by another cron job a few minutes later. This script will contain any changes that I need to make. If there aren't any updates for the day, then the script will be blank that day.
Will this work? There has to be something better than this out there. What do you guys do in this situation? For example, we've deployed about 25 workstations out so far, but now I need to change this Perl script on each one of the machines. What is the easiest way to push this script out besides SCP'ing it to each one individually.
Thanks,
Chris