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Creating Multiple SSH Connections at A Time Using Paramiko

The document discusses using threads to run SSH commands on multiple machines simultaneously using Paramiko. It provides an example that creates threads to run a grep command on different hosts, with each thread running the command on a separate host. It also mentions some ways to process the output from each host individually, such as checking the host value or using different processing functions for each thread.

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Creating Multiple SSH Connections at A Time Using Paramiko

The document discusses using threads to run SSH commands on multiple machines simultaneously using Paramiko. It provides an example that creates threads to run a grep command on different hosts, with each thread running the command on a separate host. It also mentions some ways to process the output from each host individually, such as checking the host value or using different processing functions for each thread.

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The code below runs grep in one machine through SSH and prints the results:

import sys, os, string


import paramiko

cmd = "grep -h 'king' /opt/data/horror_20100810*"

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect('10.10.3.10', username='xy', password='xy')
stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command(cmd)
stdin.write('xy\n')
stdin.flush()

print stdout.readlines()
How can I grep five machines all at once (so that I don't have major delay), than put all that in five
variables and print them all out.

python ssh paramiko

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edited Jan 11 '13 at 12:45

Tshepang
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You'll need to put the calls into separate threads (or processes, but that would be overkill) which in
turn requires the code to be in a function (which is a good idea anyway: don't have substantial code at
a module's top level).

For example:

import sys, os, string, threading


import paramiko
cmd = "grep -h 'king' /opt/data/horror_20100810*"

outlock = threading.Lock()

def workon(host):

ssh = paramiko.SSHClient()
ssh.set_missing_host_key_policy(paramiko.AutoAddPolicy())
ssh.connect(host, username='xy', password='xy')
stdin, stdout, stderr = ssh.exec_command(cmd)
stdin.write('xy\n')
stdin.flush()

with outlock:
print stdout.readlines()

def main():
hosts = ['10.10.3.10', '10.10.4.12', '10.10.2.15', ] # etc
threads = []
for h in hosts:
t = threading.Thread(target=workon, args=(h,))
t.start()
threads.append(t)
for t in threads:
t.join()

main()
If you had many more than five hosts, I would recommend using instead a "thread pool" architecture
and a queue of work units. But, for just five, it's simpler to stick to the "dedicated thread" model
(especially since there is no thread pool in the standard library, so you'd need a third party package
like threadpool... or a lot of subtle custom code of your own of course;-).
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answered Aug 14 '10 at 23:03

Alex Martelli
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 I eliminated 1 machine, so I on only need 4. I forgot to mention that all data will be processed diffrently
later in the script and as I can understood your code (I m PyN00b) it will print all data from all machines at
once, but how can I process data just from one host then? And all the hosts have diffrent pass so can I
put them all in workon()? Ty for quick replay Alex. Regards – Whit3H0rse Aug 15 '10 at 0:00
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@konjo, you can perform the processing of the data in the thread that's just obtained the data -- I was
instead printing it, only because that's what you did in your question. The processing of course can
involve checks on the value of host, if you need to perform different processing for different values
thereof. Or, you could write multiple functions to use as target= in your threads: there's no constraint
that all threads must run the same function! – Alex Martelli Aug 15 '10 at 2:20
 Oke i was able to grep all 4 machines, but now all data is merged. How can I extract data from to each
individual host, can you give mi example, please extend example above? Regards – Whit3H0rse Aug 26
'10 at 3:37
 Ty Alex for this, I think that you misunderstood me, I did accept you advice and example from above, but I
m new at programing so I need little more hints. I did all you have written above with my modification for
different cmd commands. Ty again. Regards – Whit3H0rse Aug 26 '10 at 7:25
 @konjo, on Stack Overflow, for the asker of a question to "accept" an answer means to click on the
checkmark-shaped icon to the left on the answer -- that gives the asker a few point of reputation, and the
answerer more. Your "0% accepted" means you've never done that, which is baffling. – Alex Martelli Aug
26 '10 at 13:52
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Just run everything in a for loop, and don't forget to close stdin before moving on to next iteration.
That is, after line stdin.flush() add line stdin.close()
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