Solaris

1. Say you're doing inventory on all your current systems, and you needed to check all your Solaris systems for their OS level and architecture type. How would you achieve this?

2. Alternatively, what if you needed something a little more elaborate, say to mass-config some flat files, without re-jumping hosts?

This is my experience thus far. For simple items like #1, I would do this:

Make sure RSA ssh keys are on all hosts and:

Code:

for i in cat `hosts.list `
do
ssh -t $i 'uname -a'
done

For #2, I looked at using perl's Net::SSH, and Net::SSH::Perl. Looked simple to start, however Net::SSH::Perl doesn't like the Scalar::Util version available for Solaris (no XS weaken), and Net::SSH doesn't have built-in pseudo tty handling.

Before I delve any deeper into development of either method... what method do you use?