Ordinary Man

Where I work we don’t have anything like Red Hat Satellite to deploy updates to our thirteen Red Hat servers. So that I don’t have to touch each server manually to apply updates in a relatively controlled fashion, I wrote some shell scripts that will connect to each server, apply updates and then ask if you want to reboot. Again, I don’t normally reboot unless there is a kernel update.

This is the script I use to update servers in our Dev/Test and non-web Production servers:

#!/bin/bash
clear
# SSH to the server and run local yum update
echo "**** Connecting to server1 to update ****"
echo
ssh -t user@server1 sudo yum update -y 2>&1 | tee -a $HOME/Documents/yumlogs/Dev_Test/updates_server1_`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo "**** Finished updating server1 ****"
echo
read -p "Press [Enter] to continue"
clear
echo "----------------------------------------------------"
echo
# SSH to the server and run local yum update
echo "**** Connecting to server2 to update ****"
echo
ssh -t user@server2 sudo yum update -y 2>&1 | tee -a $HOME/Documents/yumlogs/Dev_Test/updates_server2_`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo "**** Finished updating server2 ****"
echo
read -p "Press [Enter] to continue"
clear
echo "----------------------------------------------------"
echo
# **************** REBOOTS SECTION *******************
echo "^^^ Do you want to reboot server1? (yes/no) ^^^"
read REPLY
if [ "$REPLY" == "yes" ]; then
echo
echo "*** WARNING: You have selected to reboot server1 ***"
sleep 3
# SSH to the server and run shutdown
ssh -t user@server1 sudo shutdown -r +1 Rebooting in 1 minute
sleep 30
elif [ "$REPLY" == "no" ]; then
echo
echo "--- server1 will not reboot ---"
sleep 2
else
echo
echo "invalid answer, type yes or no";
fi
sleep 2
echo
echo "^^^ Do you want to reboot server2? (yes/no) ^^^"
read REPLY
if [ "$REPLY" == "yes" ]; then
echo
echo "*** WARNING: You have selected to reboot server2 ***"
sleep 2
# SSH to the server and run shutdown
ssh -t user@server2 sudo shutdown -r +1 Rebooting in 1 minute
sleep 30
elif [ "$REPLY" == "no" ]; then
echo
echo "--- server2 will not reboot ---"
sleep 2
else
echo
echo "invalid answer, type yes or no";
fi
sleep 2
echo

Then I use this script to run on my web servers that are in load balancers making sure to complete updates in a controlled fashion.

#!/bin/bash
# **************** THIS SCRIPT IS FOR UPDATING REMOTE SERVERS ON LOAD BALANCERS *******************
clear
echo
echo
echo -e " ---->> \033[33;7mREMEMBER TO COMPLETE A SNAPSHOT OF THE SERVERS BEFORE PROCEEDING\033[0m <<----"
echo
sleep 5
read -p "Press [ENTER] to continue "
echo
echo "**** Please remove WEB1 from load balance rotation ****"
echo
sleep 5
read -p "Once the WEB1 has been removed from rotation press [Enter] to continue to complete updates "
clear
echo
# **************** UPDATES SECTION FOR WEB1 *******************
# SSH to the server and run local yum update
echo "**** Connection to WEB1 to update ****"
echo
ssh -t username@WEB1 sudo yum update -y 2>&1 | tee -a $HOME/updates_web1_`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo "**** Finished updating WEB1 ****"
clear
echo
# **************** REBOOTS SECTION FOR WEB1 *******************
echo "^^^ Do you want to reboot WEB1? (yes/no) ^^^"
read REPLY
if [ "$REPLY" == "yes" ]; then
 echo
 echo "*** WARNING: You have selected to reboot WEB1 ***"
 sleep 3
 echo
 # SSH to the server and run shutdown
 ssh -t username@WEB1 sudo shutdown -r +1 Rebooting in 1 minute
 sleep 30
elif [ "$REPLY" == "no" ]; then
 echo
 echo "--- WEB1 will not reboot ---"
 sleep 2
else
 echo
 echo "invalid answer, type yes or no";
fi
echo
echo "**** Please test WEB1 before moving on to the next phase ****"
sleep 5
echo
read -p "Once WEB1 is up after a reboot (if rebooted) and has been tested press [Enter] to continue to WEB2"
echo
# **************** DONE WITH REBOOTS SECTION FOR WEB1 *******************
clear
echo "**** Please add WEB1 back into rotation and remove WEB2 from load balance rotation ****"
echo
sleep 5
read -p "Once WEB2 has been removed from rotation press [Enter] to continue to complete updates "
clear
echo
# **************** UPDATES SECTION FOR WEB2 *******************
# SSH to the server and run local yum update
echo "**** Connection to WEB2 to update ****"
echo
ssh -t username@WEB2 sudo yum update -y 2>&1 | tee -a $HOME/updates_104_`date +%Y%m%d`.log
echo
echo "**** Finished updating WEB2 ****"
clear
echo
# **************** REBOOTS SECTION FOR WEB2 *******************
echo "^^^ Do you want to reboot WEB2? (yes/no) ^^^"
read REPLY
if [ "$REPLY" == "yes" ]; then
 echo
 echo "*** WARNING: You have selected to reboot WEB2 ***"
 sleep 3
 echo
 # SSH to the server and run shutdown
 ssh -t username@WEB2 sudo shutdown -r +1 Rebooting in 1 minute
 sleep 30
elif [ "$REPLY" == "no" ]; then
 echo
 echo "--- WEB2 will not reboot ---"
 sleep 2
else
 echo
 echo "invalid answer, type yes or no";
fi
echo
echo "**** Please test the WEB2 before moving on to the next phase ****"
sleep 5
echo
read -p "Once WEB2 is up after a reboot (if rebooted) and has been tested, add WEB2 back into rotation and press [Enter] to continue "
echo
# **************** DONE WITH REBOOTS SECTION FOR WEB2 *******************
clear