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1. |  Automating System Administration with Perl, 2nd Edition Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Publication Date: 21-MAY-2009 Insert Date: 12-MAY-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Automating System Administration with Perl, 2nd Edition
If you do systems administration work of any kind, you have to deal
with the growing complexity of your environment and increasing
demands on your time. Automating System Administration with
Perl, Second Edition, not only offers you the right tools for
your job, but also suggests the best way to approach specific
problems and to securely automate recurring tasks.
Updated and expanded to cover the latest operating systems,
technologies, and Perl modules, this edition of the "Otter Book"
will help you:Manage user accountsMonitor filesystems and processesWork with configuration files in...
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2. |  By: Paul Anderson Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 30-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: System Configuration
This booklet is aimed squarely at the working system administrator; it aims to explain clearly the various facets of the system configuration problem and to describe how these relate to current tools and future research. Understanding underlying configuration principles will help system administrators use "best practice" in applying current configuration tools and procedures; these are often very flexible, and it is all too easy to negate the advantages presented by a perfectly good tool. Descriptions of the various facets of the configuration problem should also help provide system...
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3. |  Configuration Management with Bcfg2 By: Narayan Desai; Cory Lueninghoener Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 10-NOV-2008 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Configuration Management with Bcfg2
Configuration is the medium in which system administrators work. Ranging from the most sweeping decisions to minor troubleshooting of software problems, the act of helping people use computers necessitates a stream of decisions that result in the configuration and software infrastructures that each of us uses on a daily basis. Configuration management is a process whereby administrator interactions with configuration are streamlined and simplified. As the scale of infrastructures grows and the complexity of software systems increases, the cost of system administration rises rapidly....
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4. |  Deploying the VMware Infrastructure By: John Arrasjid; Karthik Balachandran; Daniel Conde; Gary Lamb; Steve Kaplan Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 10-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Deploying the VMware Infrastructure
Virtual machines, which were almost forgotten in the 1990s, have re-emerged as a method to install and consolidate many server systems into one physical machine. Many virtual machines can run on one host. Fast networks and CPUs now enable PCs to be hosted as virtual machines in central servers accessed from thin clients, just like the old time-sharing terminals, which improves the manageability of desktop computing. Complex, multi-tiered systems can be tested and deployed using virtual machines, which helps bring a wide array of configurations to the fingertips of developers, with no need...
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5. |  LCFG: A Practical Tool for System Configuration By: Paul Anderson Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 01-AUG-2008 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: LCFG: A Practical Tool for System Configuration
Even a site with a small network of computers is likely to have hundreds of configuration files. The content of these files determines how the overall system works and what it does; this is what makes the difference between a lab of student machines and the same set of hardware providing a Web service. Working out what to put in the configuration files takes a lot of skill and experience. Any mistakes are likely to cause some kind of failure or security breach. A system administrator will usually be responsible for setting these files up correctly and updating them as the system and the...
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6. |  A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine By: Mark Burgess; Æleen Frisch Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 09-APR-2007 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine
Cfengine is a free software package for automating the configuration and maintenance of networked computers. Its purpose is to implement policy-based configuration management. A System Engineer's Guide to Host Configuration and Maintenance Using Cfengine describes all aspects of using Cfengine 2. Beginning with the fundamentals of Cfengine itself, the booklet takes you though the policies, shows you how to build an infrastructure. It then covers host monitoring and anomaly detection, as well as the management process. Finally, the booklet provides case studies and sample policies and a...
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7. |  Building a Logging Infrastructure Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 14-NOV-2004 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Building a Logging Infrastructure
This booklet describes how to build an infrastructure to collect, preserve, and extract useful information from your computer operating system and application logs. We will focus primarily on UNIX syslog, with some discussion of Windows logging and other sources of log data. Logfiles hold a wealth of information, from resource utilization diagnostics to problems with hardware and software, security problems, and forensic traces of intrusions. Unfortunately, there's an awful lot of information in log files, and it's not well organized or codified. Formats of messages, even timestamps, vary...
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8. |  By: Adam Moskowitz Publisher: The USENIX Association Publication Date: 25-MAY-2003 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2009 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Budgeting for SysAdmins
Budgeting for SysAdmins provides system administrators with an in-depth look at the entire budgeting process, including: what is a budget?; why sysadmins benefit from budgeting; basic overall management; charge-backs "most economical" vs. "cheapest"; and getting the budget approved. In addition to the basics, Budgeting for SysAdmins provides an excellent guide for navigating the "people process" behind budgeting. Learn how to talk to managers, package your proposed budget, and present it to the powers that be. Budgeting affects almost every sysadmin in one way or another. This guide...
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9. |  A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux® (Versions 8.10 and 8.04), Second Edition By: Mark G. Sobell Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 30-DEC-2008 Insert Date: 28-DEC-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A Practical Guide to Ubuntu Linux® (Versions 8.10 and 8.04), Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.The Most Complete, Easy-to-Follow Guide
to Ubuntu LinuxMark Sobell’s A Practical Guide
to Ubuntu Linux®, Second Edition, isn’t just the
most thorough and up-to-date reference to installing, configuring,
and working with Ubuntu. It also provides comprehensive server
coverage you won’t find in any other Ubuntu book.The fully updated JumpStart sections help
you get complex servers running quickly. Whatever your questions
may be, the completely revamped index gives you even faster access
to the answers you’re searching for. And a brand new...
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10. |  Linux® Administration Handbook, Second Edition By: Evi Nemeth; Garth Snyder; Trent R. Hein Publisher: Prentice Hall Publication Date: 30-OCT-2006 Insert Date: 19-NOV-2008 Bookshelf Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Linux® Administration Handbook, Second Edition This is the Safari online edition of the printed book.
“As this book shows, Linux systems are just as functional,
secure, and reliable as their proprietary counterparts. Thanks to
the ongoing efforts of thousands of Linux developers, Linux is more
ready than ever for deployment at the frontlines of the real world.
The authors of this book know that terrain well, and I am happy to
leave you in their most capable hands.”
—Linus Torvalds
“The most successful sysadmin book of all
time—because it works!”
—Rik Farrow, editor of ;login:
“This book clearly explains current...
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