Remote Linux Commands

In Linux installations, we can install a software package, execute any arbitrary command, or even upgrade distribution on all client PCs.

We do the following:

• We start LServerAdmin application as an administrator. [c16]
• We go to menu LAN and select a group of PCs or all PCs.
• We select Remote Linux Commands and then the type of command we want. (image 1)

Execute Command

• To execute a command to all Linux client PCs we select Execute command. (image 1)
• On the next dialog we type a console command that would be executed on all clients. (image 2)
• Next we select the client PCs running Linux. (image 3)
• The screen divides on 2 sections so we can manage our running remote commands (see Remote Command Execution Mode)

Install Software

• To execute a command to all Linux client PCs we select Install Software. (image 1)
• On the next dialog we type any software packages we want to install, divided by space. (image 4)
• Next we select the client PCs running Linux. (image 3)
• The screen divides on 2 sections so we can manage our running remote commands (see Remote Command Execution Mode)

Distribution Upgrade

A very usefull feature of LServerAdmin is remote Distribution Upgrade on client PCs. This is something we would want to do on a regular basis.

• To upgrade distribution on all Linux client PCs we select Distribution upgrade. (image 1)
• Next we select the client PCs running Linux. (image 3)
• The screen divides on 2 sections so we can manage our running remote commands (see Remote Command Execution Mode)

Note

The upgrading process is viewed as a nice progress dialog. However, if we want better handling of the upgrading using a terminal, we can use instead Execute Command feature with command : apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y

image 1 - Remote Linux Commands	image 2 - Command Input	image 3 - Network Overview

image 4 - Software Packages