Management of 10000 WIFI routers using perl
By Toni Prug
Date: Tuesday, 15 April 2008 11:30
Duration: 60 minutes
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Tags: adsl freeradius
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This is a story about developing and using a system to manage 10000 wifi routers used by The Cloud - http://www.thecloud.co.uk/
Essential logic that enabled us to do it was that of Unix: many small tools and processees working together in asynchronous manner eg not depending on each other to perform the tasks that each component was built to do. At the heart of the system were Perl, shell scripts and the filesystem itself.