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Configuring multiple devices via ssh

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When you have 100+ routers or servers you manage, it is a bit tedious to make a configuration change to all of them manually, especially when that change is exactly the same for all of them. There is tons of software for this scenario. I have used a few different ones in the past, but parallel-ssh (formerly pssh) is what I use for Mikrotik.

Example: Need to enable and set primary and secondary ntp servers on 100 devices. First you need to create a text file with all your devices IP addresses, and optionally port and username.

10.10.10.1:22
10.10.10.2:22
10.10.10.3:22

save it as ips.txt for instance, and use the command bellow to blast commands to all listed devices.

parallel-ssh -l admin -x "-o StrictHostKeyChecking=no" -A -h /home/sam/ips.txt -v -t 10 -o /home/sam "/system ntp client set mode=unicast enabled=yes primary-ntp=1.2.3.4 secondary-ntp=1.2.3.5"

Explanation:
-l      Specify the user here instead of txt file
-A    Prompt for password
-h     Location of host file
-o     Output results to this directory (will create individual file per node)
-x     ssh arguments, see 'man ssh' StrictHostKeyChecking=no is required if you haven't accepted the            keys for the hosts previously

See man parallel-ssh for further details

If you get timeouts, it may be because you haven't saved or 'trusted' the server's key.
Error 255 may indicate failed login attempt

UPDATE: To remove the need for saving / trusting keys, edit /etc/ssh/ssh_config and add these 2 lines underneath the line 'Host *'

 UserKnownHostsFile=/dev/null
StrictHostKeyChecking no

 This will bypass the need to hit 'yes'.
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