DRBL

Diskless Remote Boot in Linux

DRBL management
Issue a command to all DRBL clients

2016/Apr/05


Issue a command to all DRBL clients

"drbl-doit" can issue a command to clients when clients are running with sshd service. Besides, it can be used to startup the soft-shutdown client machines by WOL (Wake-On-LAN).

Syntax:

CommandDescription
# drbl-doit [-w|--wol] To startup the soft-shutdown client machines by WOL (Wake-On-LAN) (You have to make sure you already configured the client's BIOS to accept WOL, and the MAC address of clients are all listed in dhcpd.conf). Run command like this:
# drbl-doit --wol
# drbl-doit [-u username] CMD Issue a command "CMD" to all drbl clients, and if -u option is not used, the login name will be used. For example, if you want to shutdown all clients, run:
drbl-doit -u root /sbin/poweroff