I made this little tool to automate some administrative tasks such as finding uptime and patch status, but it can be used for much more. Give it a try and feel free to contribute: https://github.com/b3b0/graSSHopper

RELEASES

VERSION 1.1

It’s recommended that you remove previous versions of graSSHopper before installing the latest

• Debian/Ubuntu/Mint: DEB
• Fedora/CentOS/RedHat: RPM
• All other distros: Source

PURPOSE

To automate administative tasks, operational auditing, and hacking.

DEPENDENCIES

• Unix-based OS
• Ruby
• Python
• SSH client
• sudo

INSTRUCTIONS

1. If using source, cd graSSHopper-master
2. Also if using source, sudo bash install.sh
3. Configure your /usr/share/grasshopper/commands.cfg and /usr/share/grasshopper/servers.cfg files appropriately with grasshopper -c and grasshopper -s

EXAMPLE COMMANDS.CFG FILE

df -h && uptime

EXAMPLE SERVERS.CFG FILE

10.0.0.254, john, 22
myawesomeserver, admin, 22

1. Run the program with grasshopper or use grasshopper -a for crontab.
2. Get extra help with grasshopper -h or man grasshopper
3. Run through the ssh-keygen setup
4. You’re golden ponyboy

USAGE

$ grasshopper -h

GRASSHOPPER                                                                                       

NAME
    grasshopper - run commands against multiple servers.

SYNOPSIS
    grasshopper [OPTION]

DESCRIPTION
    Run commands against multiple serves with user input or as a crontab job.

USAGE:
    - h: Display this menu
    - a: automatic, runs commands in commands.cfg against servers in servers.cfg
    - c: Edit commands.cfg
    - s: Edit servers.cfg

OTHER

• Plan to add quick way to edit commands.cfg and servers.cfg within the program.
• Contribute, break, fix or shame the project. It’s cool man.

LICENSE

                              ---graSSHopper---
                   (https://github.com/b3b0/graSSHopper)

Copyright (C) 2018 Dustin Davis (b3b0)

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.