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by syntheticlife 4498 days ago
If you do things like this, or parallel-ssh, or 'input from one terminal gets rebroadcast to N other terminals that you're running ssh in' - make no mistake - you are doing it _WRONGEST_ out of all possible wrong ways of controlling, managing or monitoring systems.

If you're trying to monitor a bunch of machines, the answer is not to display as many machines as possible on one screen. You are not a security guard paid to patrol an empty warehouse. Aggregate your logs, put them in a database. Got money? Use Splunk. Don't got money? Use Kubuto.

Trying to capture metrics? Graphite

If you're trying to administrate a bunch of machines, parallel-ssh or any of the live single-input->multi-output terminal solutions there are is the equivalent of throwing excrement at the computers. Learn Puppet, Chef, salt, fabric or one of the other 9 trillion other solutions that are more reliable than a human mashing their giant inept sausage fingers against a keyboard.

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Agreed. Never heard of Kubuto before... perhaps you're referring to Kibana (used in conjunction with ElasticSearch)?