"Buck Turgidson" <jc_va@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:b8f2b9f708ebe18f487ed1b53ef4bbef@news.teranew s.com...
> Does AIX have a facility, like Telnet, to run scripts on multiple
boxes?
> Basically, I want to stop some services on boxes a, b, c, and backup a
> database on box d. Then bring all the services back up.
>
Dependant on what precisely the services are you could script the stop
and start routines for the services on a, b and c and use SRC to
remotely control them.

The System Resource Controller does have a facility for the remote
management of services.

I used to do something similar with IBM's ISS on AIX.


--
RobH
DAB: The future's dim, the future's mono.