Automating Unix and Linux Administration (Paperback)

Summary

Automating UNIX and Linux Administration will focus on automating the tedious daily tasks of system administration. It will provide real-world examples and explore the existing tools that will help with this task. Although the book will provide brief overviews of tools and technologies that are covered, Bauer assumes the reader knows how to edit a configuration file or mount a file system. The book will focus on putting the tools to use in the real world (i.e. how to use a set of Perl scripts to manage your user accounts across 1000 machines). It will not show you how to write a "Hello World" program in Perl nor contain a Perl function reference or summary.

The techniques, methods, and tools covered in this book will provide help on a single system, but will be much more useful across multiple systems. Whether managing 2 or 5,000 systems, whether they're desktops, servers, or a Beowulf cluster, they will benefit from this type of automation. Although some of the book will be Linux-specific, most of it will apply to any UNIX system. It will also focus on automating tasks across multiple variants of UNIX.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1--Introducing the Basics of Automation
Chapter 2-- Using SSH to Securely Automate System Administration
Chapter 3--Creating Login Scripts and Shell Scripts
Chapter 4--Pre-Installation: Network Preparation and Management
Chapter 5--Automating and Customizing Installation
Chapter 6--Automatic System Configuration
Chapter 7--Sharing Data Between Systems
Chapter 8--Packages and Patches
Chapter 9--System Maintenance and Changes
Chapter--10 System Monitoring
Chapter 11--Improving System Security
Chapter 12--Backing Up and Restoring Data
Chapter 13--User Interfaces
Appendix A Introduction to Basic Tools
Appendix B Customizing and Automating Red Hat Linux Installation
Appendix C Building Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) Packages