Typing in multiple xterm windows

[Norman England]

I have seen an application that allows one make changes to multiple servers at the same time. When you type in one xterm, the information is also echoed to other xterms windows as well. Does this sound remotly feasible?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

I think you are referring to SharedX which is part of the Mpower Web bundle on the Application CD's.

[Jeff Schussele]

I've used a Sun product in the past - think it was named CCB or something like that. It was part of Sun's Console suite of products.
Was pretty cool...you could do loads of servers at once - all kinds, but then highlight on specific server to deal with if you had to.

Rgds,
Jeff

[Jon Mattatall]

We use a slightly different approach.
On our intranet and DMZ boxes, we use SSH to connect from a trusted server via Teraterm. When we want to make universal changes (BigBrother versions, shutdowns, patches) we use an in-house distribution shell script that goes out, connects, authenticates, and runs the commands with the output echoed to our workstations.

Fully configurable, can specify the desired servers and so on.

On a cautionary note, do consider the consequences of blowing up multiple servers at one time. Career limiting.

Jon