How to get information from many HP UX boxes

[ROSS HANSON]

Hello,

I need to obtain free disk space information from other HPUX machines and report to the boss. I was hoping to write a script to do this but I was hoping I did not need to use rexec among other type of unsecure commands.

Is there a way, a script, can login into another system, do a bdf command then transfer that information back to my linux box where I can write out the rest of the script?

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Ross:

Use the secure shell with public keys.

# ssh -n somehostname "bdf" > /var/tmp/somehostname.bdf

Regards!

...JRF...

[Tim Nelson]

Only limited by imagination..

Use an NFS mount as a repository and have each server run something via cron and send output to NFS mount.


I run a script via cron on every server and have them email the results to my admin server. The admin server is in charge of gathering the emails and creating a report. This report I then import into an Oracle express app which displays a variety of info via html.

many many other possibilities.

HP has some tools as well, like insight manager and such but I typically find that they do not deliver what I need.

[Tingli]

If you don't mind, you can install nagios which will collect nearly everything for you.

[Suraj K Sankari]

Hi,
1st you need to set a nopasswd from 1 server into all hp box
then take all server's name or ip into a file say srvname then at command prompt
for i in `cat srvname`
do
echo "Server : "$i >>bdf.out
ssh $i bdf >>bdf.out
done

Suraj

[Sivakumar MJ._1]

Hi Ross,

Check this link

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/execute-commands-on-multiple-linux-or-unix-servers.html

[ROSS HANSON]

Thanks much for the info. I have tried various idea you all have provided and many seemed to work
Thank you all