Idea: Esya Install

[peey]

Description: Given a list of IPs, log into them with credentials, copy over a bash script and run it to install stuff en masse for events.

Possible Features:

• Automatically login using telnet and provided internet credentials if required.
• Have an easy way to report which systems it didn't successfully install on

Potential Challenges:

• We only know IPs of the system where it didn't install, we don't know the physical machine
• We don't know IPs of machines in a particular lab. This could be resolved by maintaining a map though, since it's unlikely that machines would move across labs in the future.
• Machines booted into codechef linux will give problems. This is more a limitation than a challenge, volunteers will still have to make sure every machine is turned on and booted into the right OS (logging in isn't necessary though)

Problem(s) it Solves: This makes Esya installation parties more fun as only one person has to write a script and deploy it and rest of them can actually party.

Resources:

• None

Known Implementations:

• None