作者：Kirk Bauer, Nathan Campi
出版日期：December 15, 2008
出版社：Apress
页数：448
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1430210591 ISBN-13: 978-1430210597
文件格式：PDF



Product Description
Whether you need a network of ten Linux PCs and a server or adatacenter with a few thousand Unix nodes, you need to know how toautomate much of the installation, configuration, and standard systemadministration.Build your network once using cfengine, and the network build will work, without user intervention, on any hardware you prefer. Automating Linux and Unix System Administration, Second Editionis unique in its focus on how to make the system administrator’s jobeasier and more efficient: instead of just managing the systemadministrator’s time, the book explains the technology to automaterepetitive tasks and the methodology to automate successfully.
Both new and seasoned professionals will profit from industry–leading insights into the automation process.System administrators will attain a thorough grasp of cfengine, kickstart, and shell scripting for automation.After reading all chapters and following all exercises in thisbook, the reader will be able to set up anything from a Linuxdatacenter to a small office network.What you’ll learnSee how to make changes on many UNIX and Linux hosts at once in a reliable and repeatable manner.
Learn how to automate things correctly so you only have to do itonce, by leveraging the authors’ experience in setting up small,medium, and large networks.Set up a Linux datacenter or a network correctly.Explore handling real–world environments where not all hosts areconfigured alike via a case study of a fictional new datacenterbuildout.Examine real–world examples for core infrastructure services (DNS,mail, monitoring, log analysis, security, cfengine, imaging) to buildon in your environment.Understand core system administration best practices, which are akey part of how cfengine and automations deployments are outlined inthe book.Learn how to make changes reversible, repeatable, and correct thefirst time through interaction with product/application stakeholders(programmers, product managers, customers, etc.).Who is this book for?This book is for Linux system administrators who want to learn aboutthe software and methodology to automate repetitive tasks—regardless ofnetwork or datacenter size—in one place. System managers will also findit much easier to think about network technology and automationprojects if they read this book. This book is also for anyone who isinterested in repeatable and secure infrastructure.
About the Author
Kirk Bauer has been involved in computer programming since
1985. He has been using and administering UNIX systems since 1994.
Although his personal favorite UNIX variant is Linux, he hasadministered and developed on everything from FreeBSD to Solaris, AIX,and
HP–UX. He is the author of various open source solutions such as
Logwatch.
Kirk has been involved with software development and system/networkadministration since his first year at the Georgia Institute ofTechnology. He has done work for the Georgia Tech Research Institute,Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and DHL. In 2000, Kirk was oneof the founders and the chief
technology officer of TogetherWeb, which was purchased in 2003 byProficient Systems. Kirk is now a systems engineer with F5 Networks.
Kirk graduated from Georgia Tech in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree incomputer engineering and is currently pursuing his MBA at Arizona StateUniversity. He lives in Peoria, Arizona, with his two dogs, and islooking forward to getting married to his lovely fiancé, Rachel.
Nathan Campi is a UNIX and Linux system administrator by trade,currently working as a UNIX operations manager in San Francisco. His
system administration experience is almost entirely with companies
with large–scale web operations based on open source software. In his
copious free time, he enjoys jogging, watching spaghetti westerns,
experimenting with Linux systems, and spending time with his family.