I'm administering a medium sized AIX landscape. We have, probably... 40 systems. We are currently using AIX 6.1 which has a command called cfmupdatenode. What this program does is lets you define a root (/cfmroot) which becomes your synchronization root. When you run cfmupdatenode -a (or -n [nodeName]) it will synchronize those files out to the appropriate servers. The way it knows is this:
The nodes are pre-defined beforehand (flux = flux.domain.com; spin = spin.domain.com; jump = jump.domain.com;etc)
Groups are also pre-defined if required (group1 = [flux, spin])
Each file under /cfmroot can have a suffix to the filename which defines where the file should go. An example is like this:
/cfmroot/etc/hosts [This file will be distributed to all defined nodes]
/cfmroot/etc/hosts.jump [This file will only be distributed to jump]
/cfmroot/etc/hosts.group1 [This file will be distributed to the nodes in group1, which is flux and spin]
It works fairly well, it's a tad bit slow, but considering everything that it does, it works well.
The problem is that we want to upgrade to AIX 7.1 which doesn't support cfmupdatenode anymore. I've searched the internet for a replacement, but I can't seem to find anything. I'm thinking that I may have to write my own, but I would prefer to use a tool that already exists.
Has anyone heard of anything similar to this out there in the wild? Thanks!
