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 by

renaming it to shellcmd.rb and putting it in the application directory

• Test it:

  mco shellcmd 'echo i execute therefore i am'
  

Do you really want to run the command echo i think therefore i am unfiltered? (y/n): y

HOST:host1.yoursite.com EXITCODE:0 STDOUT:

i think therefore i am

HOST:host2.yoursite.com EXITCODE:0 STDOUT:

i think therefore i am

Finished processing 14 / 14 hosts in 663.52 ms

TODO

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

Authors

Joe Miller, <joeym@joeym.net>, 9/13/2010 Joe McDonagh, <jmcdonagh@thesilentpenguin.com>, 2012-08-16