Notes:
Fanout is great when you have to run checks on multiple machines, for example:
fanout “localhost mailserver webserver” “cat /etc/redhat-release” will return the RedHat version number of each machine.
fanout “localhost lab1 lab2 lab3 lab4 lab5” “rpm –Uvh ftp://mirror.stearns.org/pub/redhat/telnet-server-0.13.1-6.i386.rpm”
The top of the script shows other examples.