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Administration Guide


Using the Distributed Command Execution Manager

The Distributed Command Execution Manager (DCEM) provides a variety of services for a network of distributed machines. The DCEM graphical user interface allows you to construct command specifications for executing on multiple target machines, providing real-time status as commands are executed. You can enter the command definition, run-time options, and selected hosts and groups for a command specification, and you have the option of saving this command specification to use in the future. When you save a command specification, a Perl script is generated that you can run directly from a Linux or AIX command line. You can create and modify groups of hosts to use as targets for a command directly from DCEM. You can specify these groups by supplying host names for the group or by using dynamic queries on specific host attributes in a domain. DCEM also creates a log of all distributed command activity.

The DCEM startup window is shown in the following illustration.


DCEM startup windowView figure.


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