I assume you can use any suggestion the monks gave to you
The most natural for you would be to automate what you _always_ manually do:

1) one script on local machine for make tardist
2) one script on local machine for scp + ssh to each production server
3) one script on the remote machine, that is run by the second script, to
make test + make install on each production server.
4) and eventually one collector script that runs the first and the second script and mails you the results ;-)