New dtools and a bit more

Last week was crazy. I published a new release of dtools, the 4.2, a new web site for the dtools project and a couple of patches for version 5.0 of collectd.

In the last months, dtools becomes in an useful tool for me. I use dtools everyday for system administration in large distributed networks. So I decided to improve some functionalities and also test and retest current features, so in a couple of months I expect to launch a new release of dtools.

In the meantime, I still working in whistler, a XMPP bot for MUC rooms, I hope that SleekXMPP library, which is the XMPP engine used by whistler become to release early. At that point we must remove any dependency with the old xmpppy in the code and we will ready to release the version 2.0 of whistler.

New version of dtools

Today I was released a new version of dtools. Distributed tools, aka dtools is a project written in bash coding to create a suite of programs to allow running different UNIX comamnds parallelly in a list of tagged hosts.

Features

• Fully written in bash, no third party software required (except ssh, obviously).
• Based in module architecture, easy to extend.
• Full integration with ssh.
• Easy to group hosts by tags or search by regular expression.
• Manage of ssh hosts
• Parseable output, but human-readable
• Thinking in system admin, no special development skills required to extend the software.

Short Example

$ dt tag:linux ssh date
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux1.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux3.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009
okay::dt:ssh:myhostlinux2.domain:Mon Nov 16 23:54:04 CET 2009

As usual, you can download the code from the project page, or if you wish you can download the code via git:

git clone git://git.connectical.com/ajdiaz/dtools

Enjoy!