Automating Unix and Linux Administration

This title is about automating tasks that any network administrator would otherwise have to manually perform. Automation increases the efficiency of a network because it reduces the number of errors that repetitive manual input is likely to produce, and at the same time reduces the number of personnel required to manually perform tasks.

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Wouldn't you like to automate the tedious daily tasks of system administration? Automating UNIX and Linux Administration will show you how, by exploring existing tools and offering real-world examples. Although some of the book is Linux-specific, most of the information applies to any UNIX system, including material on automating tasks across multiple variants of UNIX. Author Kirk Bauer briefly overviews tools and technologies--and assumes preliminary knowledge about editing a configuration file or mounting a file system. The techniques, methods, and tools in this book will help you manage a single system--but will prove especially powerful across multiple systems. No matter if the systems are desktops, servers, or Beowulf clusters--all of them will benefit from this automation. And managing five to five thousand systems will become a simpler task!