diff --git a/scripts/runcampaign.sh b/scripts/runcampaign.sh
index e1427065..fbc761c5 100755
--- a/scripts/runcampaign.sh
+++ b/scripts/runcampaign.sh
@@ -7,16 +7,6 @@
 # - (possibly overridden) env variables from fail-env.sh
 #
 
-set -e
-# determine absolute path of this script
-SCRIPTDIR=$(readlink -f $(dirname $0))
-# env variable defaults
-source $SCRIPTDIR/fail-env.sh
-
-CMD="killall -q client.sh || true; cd $FAIL_EXPERIMENT_TARGETDIR; ./multiple-clients.sh"
-CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS=2
-SSH="ssh -o BatchMode=yes -o ConnectTimeout=60 -o ConnectionAttempts=$CONNECTION_ATTEMPTS"
-
 # runcampaign.sh <campaignserver-binary>
 if [ ! -x "$1" ]; then echo "usage: $0 <campaignserver-binary>" >&2; exit 1; fi
 CAMPAIGNSERVER_BINARY=$1
@@ -25,20 +15,7 @@ date
 /usr/bin/time -po .time "$CAMPAIGNSERVER_BINARY" > $(basename "$CAMPAIGNSERVER_BINARY")_progress.txt 2>&1 &
 sleep .1 # wait until server is likely to have a listening socket opened
 
-for h in $FAIL_EXPERIMENT_HOSTS
-do
-	if [[ $h == *:* ]]
-	then
-		# split in host:nclients
-		NCLIENTS=${h#*:}
-		h=${h%:*}
-	else
-		NCLIENTS=
-	fi
-
-	$SSH $h "$CMD $NCLIENTS" &
-	disown
-done
+$(dirname $0)/start-clients.sh
 
 wait
 echo "duration:"