> -----Original Message-----
> From: Derrick (Thrawn01) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 3:52 PM
> To: Perl Beginners
> Subject: New Project, Design Thoughts appreciated
>
>
> I've been the task of designing a remote maintenance system,
> for several
> maybe hundreds ) of computers across a WAN.
> It would preferably be a web application so multiple users
> can operate the
> maintnce on several systems simultaneously.
>
> The problem I have is with running commands on the remote system.
> Hoping to pool from the wealth of experience displayed on this List.
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I could easily, (
> WITH OUT TONS OF
> CODING )
> Run command line programs on a remote computer, and get the
> output returned
> to the calling Web app?
>
> Via Telnet of some kind?
> RPC ? ( I looked at RPC, but it seams I'd have to program a
> server app, with
> a server running on each
> Remote computer, Would this be difficult? Would Telnet
> be practical ? )
>
> I'm a novice perl programmer, but I've done some web apps
> with sql. using
> DBI. Not any Server network type apps or
> anything.
Is this a Unix environment? I would investigate using Net::Rexec,
available on CPAN. I use it for some simple things, and it's
extremely easy to use. (Of course, the servers have to have
rexec service enabled.)
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