[CentOS] ssh remote execute awk problem

Thu Mar 17 15:04:46 UTC 2011
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On 3/17/2011 9:43 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
>
>>>
>>>        ssh -l $TARGETUSER $TARGETHOST "[ -e /proc/cpuinfo ] -a grep
>>> ^processor | wc -l"
>>
>> Or, more extremely - if you are doing much of this kind of remote
>> inventory checking, you might consider running ocsinventory-ng with
>> agents on the nodes.
>
> Yes. We use ocsinventory here. Warning: there are a few systems that
> ocsinventory, or at least the version we put on last year, would literally
> crash or hang the system.

They seem to be nearing a 2.x release where the new server will talk to 
the old clients but not the other way around (due to the db utf8 
settings).  But I haven't seen any serious problems with the old agent 
except that on windows the service sometimes stops running, and it 
doesn't see the 64-bit registry.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com