I could, and I was thinking about something like this, but I too was lazy when trying to roll out the miner .  The question I have for the group is what style of auto discovery would we want?  i.e. do most people run their miners on networks that have multicast enabled across all the switches and hubs etc? or would we just want to instead of listing all the nodes on the masters start-up command, just list the master node on every other nodes start-up command?