Cluster SSH alternative
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Loading ...I’ve just had to configure several new power distribution units . The serial ports were hooked up to our terminal servers as normal but then I wanted to configure them all at the same time as the interface is menu driven. There is the well known Cluster SSH program but this wouldn’t work as I was connecting through to the terminal server then through to the individual port using a local port. I was typing ssh user:port@server and cluster ssh was interpreting this incorrectly and trying to ssh to port@server - i.e. the user it was trying to connect as was the port number. Rather than try and modify cluster ssh (it’s just a perl script underneath) I looked around for alternatives and found Keyboardcast. A quick aptitude install later and the job was done. You can either fire up new terminals with the tool or select existing ones to work with. The only downside I found was that it wouldn’t work with tabs in Gnome terminal. An excellent tool.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:22 am
Of course if you had a Mac you could have used iTerm: http://iterm.sourceforge.net/
This has a great feature to allow you to send the same command to multiple windows. My terminal of choice
October 8th, 2007 at 10:48 am
Of course the the reason I don’t have a Mac is that it’s a closed platform. Open source only please :)
October 9th, 2007 at 9:11 am
With Konsole in KDE you can open multiple tabs, right click on one of the tabs and then select “send input to all sessions”.
Sounds dangerous though :-P
October 10th, 2007 at 10:33 am
It is a dangerous tool - especially when you forget to stop it after you’ve finished configuring things. Maybe I should give KDE and/or Konsole a try. Easy enough to do on ubuntu.