[TriLUG] scripted sesssions with ssh

[Shawn Hartsock]

Would something like this work for you?
http://www.wellho.net/resources/ex.php4?item=p616/sshlet

use Net::SSH::Perl ;

$scon = Net::SSH::Perl->new ("www.savethetrain.org.uk");
# for the record, I don't like this bit... and would prefer auth keys
$scon->login("savethetrain","abc123");
print "looking around ...\n";
($output,$errors,$exit) = $scon->cmd("ls -l");
print $output;

Naturally, you can do the same sorts of things in Python, Java, C or
any language you prefer.
For example in Python:
http://twistedmatrix.com/projects/conch/documentation/examples/sshsimpleclient.py

Of course, I'm almost afraid to suggest it since it sounds like its
almost time for your team to consider something like Nagios.

On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:07 AM, Joseph Mack NA3T<jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
> At $work I nonitor about 1000 parameters every 5 minutes (cpu usage,
> ethernet throughput, temperature of disks...). I'm required to do this by
> ssh from another machine. This involves scripts which make calls like
>
> monitoring_machine#: result=`ssh remote_machine du | grep ...`
>
> This works, except the large number (1000/5mins) of ssh calls cause a high
> load on the both the client and remote machine.
>
> My $manager says that since he can ssh to the remote machine and do the at
> the command prompt the same thing as my scripts do, that my scripts should
> only have to make one ssh connection and they should run all their commands
> and receive the responses without exiting the ssh session.
>
> The only way I can see to do this is with expect scripts (it would be a
> nightmare to code up)
>
> Are there other ways for a script to open an ssh connection, make about 1000
> calls, and process 1000 respones before closing the ssh session?
>
> My preference would be to run the monitoring on each machine and ship the
> results back to the monitoring machine, but I'm not allowed to do that (it
> would result in too much load on the monitored machine).
>
> Thanks
> Joe
>
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