Administrating Large Banks of PCs

[hobuscorpus]

How do you administrate large banks of PCs?

I'm wondering, for instance, if you have 50 computers, and your boss is like, "YELL YELL YELL, SHOUT YELL, DO apt-get install yourjobsucks ON EVERY COMPUTER IMMEDIATELY!"

What's the standard practice to achieve this? Do you keep all the computers IPs statci and keep a list of them? Do you initialize them all with a naming pattern? How do you remotely execute code on them all, do you keep a shared password for all the systems, or do something sneakier?

[atescomp]

Hahaha, I'm sorry to see that management techniques are still as bad as ever. Tell him to take a chill pill get some real management training.

Try ClusterSSH. You will need identical login user names / passwords or shared key thing.
Puppet Master is another choice, but is a bit more involved to set up.

[hobuscorpus]

hehe, thank you so much for the support Atescomp

I'll look into these two packages later this week, they both look really cool.