Automating Linux and Unix System Administration

• Main Authors: Campi, Nate (Author), Bauer, Kirk (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2009.
• Edition: Second Edition.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer Science.; Computer Science, general.

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 use...

Table of Contents:

• Introducing the Basics of Automation
• Applying Practical Automation
• Using SSH to Automate System Administration Securely
• Configuring Systems with cfengine
• Bootstrapping a New Infrastructure
• Setting Up Automated Installation
• Automating a New System Infrastructure
• Deploying Your First Application
• Generating Reports and Analyzing Logs
• Monitoring
• Infrastructure Enhancement
• Improving System Security.