shellcmd agent for mcollective -- run arbitrary shell commands

shellcmd is licensed under the GPL, see the file COPYING for more information.

shellcmd agent is a very simple agent for running arbitrary shell commands on your mcollective machines.

Install

• Grab it from github:

  git clone git://github.com/joemiller/shellcmd-agent.git
  

• Copy shellcmd.rb to the mcollective agent directory on all of your mcollective-managed machines.

• On your client machine, install the mc-shellcmd control script

• Test it:

  mc-shellcmd 'echo i execute therefore i am'
  
  ===============================================================
  web01.dom.com exitcode: 0, output:
  I execute therefore I am
  ===============================================================
  web02.dom.com exitcode: 0, output:
  I execute therefore I am
  ===============================================================
  web03.dom.com exitcode: 0, output:
  I execute therefore I am
  ===============================================================
  db01.dom.com exitcode: 0, output:
  I execute therefore I am
  ===============================================================
  
  Finished processing 4 / 4 hosts in 221.02 ms
  

TODO

See the Issues page on github for more: http://github.com/joemiller/shellcmd-agent/issues

Author

Joe Miller, <joeym@joeym.net>, 9/13/2010