Automating Linux and Unix System Administration

✍ Scribed by Nate Campi, Kirk Bauer (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 431
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Whether you need a network of ten Linux PCs and a server or a data center with a few thousand UNIX nodes, you need to know how to automate much of the installation, configuration, and standard system administration.

Build your network once using cfengine, and the network build will work, without user intervention, on any hardware you prefer. Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Edition is unique in its focus on how to make the system administrator's job easier and more efficient: instead of just managing the system administrator's time, the book explains the technology to automate repetitive tasks and the methodology to automate successfully.

• Both new and seasoned professionals will profit from industry–leading insights into the automation process.
• System administrators will attain a thorough grasp of cfengine, kickstart, and shell scripting for automation.
• After reading all chapters and following all exercises in this book, the reader will be able to set up anything from a Linux data center to a small office network.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Introducing the Basics of Automation....Pages 1-18
Applying Practical Automation....Pages 19-25
Using SSH to Automate System Administration Securely....Pages 27-47
Configuring Systems with cfengine....Pages 49-77
Bootstrapping a New Infrastructure....Pages 79-105
Setting Up Automated Installation....Pages 107-159
Automating a New System Infrastructure....Pages 161-212
Deploying Your First Application....Pages 213-252
Generating Reports and Analyzing Logs....Pages 253-272
Monitoring....Pages 273-321
Infrastructure Enhancement....Pages 323-352
Improving System Security....Pages 353-374
Back Matter....Pages 375-419

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks; Computer Communication Networks; System Performance and Evaluation; Computer System Implementation