rduty is a Python script to easily and quickly run a command or multiple commands on remote and local hosts and devices via ssh (telnet is also supported). It is also able to automate repetitive tasks on many hosts using inventory files from Ansible, or simple .ini inventory files.

rduty is currently tested on Python3, it hasn't been tested yet on other Python versions.

Python3 is needed, other than that, the rduty package is installation is very simple, but there are some dependencies which you might have to install as well:

$ sudo pip install paramiko

$ make install

By default rduty will be installed with the '/usr/local' prefix. You can change this by passing 'PREFIX=the_prefix' to make:

$ make PREFIX=/usr install

When rduty is executed it will check for the needed dependencies and report if anything is missing.

Usage: rduty [HOST or INVENTORY] [COMMAND or SCRIPT] ...

Some usage examples:

$ rduty -H 192.168.0.10 -C "ls"

$ rduty -H 192.168.0.10,192.168.0.20,server.mydomain.local -C "uname -a"

$ rduty -I myinventory/servers.ini --script "/home/user/commands_list.txt"

$ rduty -I myinventory/servers.ini --script "/home/user/commands_list.txt" --dryrun

Options:

A script is a file with a list of command to execute on the remote host, each one on a new line:

uname -a
df
hostname

A Inventory file is a .ini file with a list of hosts with the folling format:

[servers]
server1.localdomain.local
server2.localdomain.local
[dbs]
db1.localdomain.local

Usage: rduty [HOST or INVENTORY] [COMMAND or SCRIPT] ...

$ ./rduty.py  -H 192.168.0.3 -C "uname" -p 22
Username: gabriele
Password:
1. [192.168.0.3:22]
192.168.0.3 -> Connect
192.168.0.3 -> Executing command: uname
192.168.0.3 -> Getting output:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Linux
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
192.168.0.3 -> Connection closed.

The latest version of rduty is available on GitHub https://github.com/gabgio/rduty . For questions, bug reports, suggestions, etc. please contact the author.

This software is licensed under the GNU GPL2.

© 2020 Gabriele Giorgetti.