SSH with a central host list?

Hello,

Our networking team are using secure shell to access their network
devices from Windows XP laptops. However, at present there are over 400
devices and each member of the team has their own copy of those devices
DNS name and/or IP address in a list. The problem is that whenever a
device is changed (IP address), added or removed then each member of the
team has to be told and update their list. This does not work well!

I have been asked to see if there is a secure shell client, be it open
source, shareware, commercial or whatever, that supports some form of
'central host list'. Ideally this would be just a text list of DNS names
held on a central file store. That way the team only has to update one
list and the change is then immediately accessible to all team members.

I have looked at some SSH products, openssh, secure CRT, F-secure,
openssh for windows (with ttssh), terraterm and so on, but can find
nothing that has any sort of central host list. Does anyone know of any
such product?


Many thanks,

John.

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