Pro Python system administration / Rytis Sileika.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sileika, Rytis.

Series:

The expert's voice in open source

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Python (Computer program language).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2010.

Other Title:

Python system administration

Place of Publication:

[Berkeley, Calif.] : Apress, 2010.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

As time goes on, system administrators are presented with increasingly complicated challenges. In the early days, a team of engineers might have had to look after one or two systems. These days, one engineer can administer hundreds or thousands of systems. System administrators are gradually replacing their tools with more advanced and flexible ones. One of the choices is Python. Structurally, Python is a modern, high-level language with a very clean syntax. Python comes with many built-in libraries that can make automation tasks easier. It also has extensive set of third-party libraries and a very active development community. This flexibility makes Python a good choice for a wide variety of tasks, from prototyping science applications to system maintenance and administration jobs. This book explains and shows how to apply Python scripting in practice. Unlike the majority of the Python books, it will show you how to approach and resolve real-world issues that most system administrators will come across in their careers. In this book, you will find several projects in the categories of network administration, web server administration, and monitoring and database management. In each project, we will define the problem, design the solution, and go through the more interesting implementation steps. Each project is accompanied with the source code of a fully working prototype, which you’ll be able to use immediately or adapt to your requirements and environment.

Contents:

Reading and Collecting Performance Data Using SNMP

Managing Devices Using the SOAP API

Creating a Web Application for IP Address Accountancy

Integrating the IP Address Application with DHCP

Maintaining a List of Virtual Hosts in an Apache Configuration File

Gathering and Presenting Statistical Data from Apache Log Files

Performing Complex Searches and Reporting on Application Log Files

A Web Site Availability Check Script for Nagios

Management and Monitoring Subsystem

Remote Monitoring Agents

Statistics Gathering and Reporting

Automatic MySQL Database Performance Tuning

Using Amazon EC2/S3 as a Data Warehouse Solution.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781430226062

1430226064

OCLC:

676700763