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monitoring various things (mainly activity) on different unix boxes

Hi there,

I want to ask you guys what you think about my problem.
I work as a sysadmin on about 7000 workstations or so and to save money and energy, we've decided to switch off as many workstations as possible during the night (probably by shutting it down by cron and power it on by WakeOnLAN).
We're also planning to develop a custom portal to let users choose if the workstation they're using cannot be shut down.

All of this is currently under discussion, and for now I need to report the nightly activity on a selection of workstations (RHEL4, RHEL5 and HP-UX 11.11), here is what I need :

- monitor if there's local user logged on the workstation
- monitor if there's remote user logged on the workstation
- activity of those users if applicable
- process running

Of course I first thought about the "ps -ef" and the "who" commands but there's about 50 workstations to monitor (during 2 weeks or so) and I'm not really a shell script guru and of course data collected must be compiled easily for me to report...

What do you think is the best option ?

Thanks

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NAME

       auplay - play a sound file to a Network Audio System server

SYNOPSIS

       auplay [-audio servername] [-volume 0-100] [-i] [-I] [-l] files...

DESCRIPTION

       The auplay program can be used to play audio data stored in the .SND, .AU, or .WAV formats common on Sun workstations and PCs.  It is typi-
       cally used from shell scripts or command line procedures.  If no filenames are given on the command line, audio	data  will  be	read  fron
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OPTIONS

       The following options may be used with the auplay program:

       -audio servername
	       This option specifies the Network Audio System server on which the files should be played.

       -volume 0-100
	       This option specifies the volume at which the data should be played as a percentage of the maximum possible volume.  The default is
	       100 percent.

       -i      This option indicates that the header information associated with the sound data should be printed along with playing the data.

       -I      This option indicates that the header information associated with the sound data should be printed instead of playing the data.

       -l      This option indicates that a list of filenames is to be read from stdin.  auplay will play these  files	after  playing	any  files
	       given explicitly as command line arguments.

SEE ALSO

       nas(1), auctl(1), audemo(1), autool(1)

COPYRIGHT

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AUTHOR

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