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My servers are running on different environment (application instances: sun java, glassfish etc web instances, database: oracle, postgre, informix). All of them have their own restart script on the individual servers.

Im thinking of doing this logic (actually this project is required by my boss]

a. on the centralized host, script that will ssh remotely to all the servers and point to the path where the restart script resides).

The support admin (not unix admin) will then have a menu choices like. Restart a. server1 b. server2 c. server3 so on......
So if I choose letter a, I will still have a choice to restart a. application b. web c.database. I will choose say letter a. Like that.

Do you recommend that logic?

Yea it will work. I have some menu's like that. And the looping down to lower menu's and then back up will take some logic. The call-out with ssh you will probably need sudo so that the script that you call can do the sudo su - <user id> -c "<command to run>" type thing. And the global user that will be coming from the central server will have to be auth keyed for login.

what is that? can you provide a template for my guide?

---------- Post updated 02-15-11 at 08:34 AM ---------- Previous update was 02-14-11 at 09:56 PM ----------

what is a wrapper? do you have any template that I can use as a guide?

---------- Post updated at 08:35 AM ---------- Previous update was at 08:34 AM ----------

just wanted to ask if anybody have script template for the subject above so I can make ti as my guide? example

a. server 1.1.1.1: restart script located at /etc/init.d/glassfish.sh
b. server 2.2.2.2: central script that support admin will use to execute to restart the /etc/init.d/glassfish.sh at server 1.1.1.1

note: rlogin, telnet, rsh disabled. server 2.2.2.2 can only ssh 1.1.1.1 asking for login pw.

any ideas so I can make it as my guide? I will create a central script as per my old thread to remotely restart several application instances (like glassfish, sun java etc).