This is more of an advice/feedback question. I would love to get advice for these tasks from the monks at the Monastery.
Enough with that , here is the problem at hand

Problem At Hand:

I need to deploy a linux client app to all of my Red Hat boxses (around 30 servers). All of the servers a running
OpenSSH and my workstations is a Windows XP box. I am writing a perl script that will push out all of the client applications, either in .tgz or rpm format.
I have been experiencing problems with the Net::SSH module (connecting to the servers) and and I sure after some more tickering I will get the problem solved.
My first question is, does anybody know of better way of approaching this task? Maybe a better module , or a way that would also monitor if the client install was sucessful.

Second idea:

I would also like to write a script that could do this with windows servers as well as linux server.

I am not asking for any fully scripted solutions, but just some feedback from some of the great perl minds in the monastery. Maybe suggested modules..etc... Any help or suggestion would be much appreciated

I guess you could call this a brainstorming request....

In reply to Deploying Apps Remotely by crypix

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