From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2003-09-12T04:50:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby in Systems Administration



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Wilson [mailto:wmwilson01@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 8:20 AM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Ruby in Systems Administration
> 
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone had some really cool uses for 
> Ruby in Systems 
> Administration.  Some examples of what I would consider to be 
> really cool is 
> stuff like using drb or webrick to poll system status, gather 
> inventory 
> information, etc.  Useful ways to interact with multiple 
> systems.  Ways to 
> push system changes out to hundreds of servers.  Etc, etc...  
> I know there's 
> some stuff on the wiki ( 
> http://www.rubygarden.org/ruby?RealWorldRuby ) > as 
> well.
> 
> 
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We use a tcp client-server app written in Ruby to monitor applications and
hosts on dozens of remote machines.  Most of the ruby modules I've written
were with this app in mind.  Here are some websites containing modules
(though no applications) I've written that might interest you:

http://ruby-sysutils.sf.net
http://ruby-netutils.sf.net
http://ruby-miscutils.sf.net

Also, see http://users.rcn.com/mghall/ruby/ruby.html for some useful modules
written by Mike Hall.

Regards,

Dan