Automating Linux and Unix System Administration · 2nd Edition by Campi, Nathan -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication About the Authors About the Technical Reviewer Acknowledgements Introduction CHAPTER 1 - Introducing the Basics of Automation

Do You Need Automation? What Will You Gain? What Do System Administrators Do? Methodology: Get It Right from the Start! Dealing with Users and Administrators Who Owns the Systems? Defining Policy

CHAPTER 2 - Applying Practical Automation

Seeing Everything As a File Understanding the Procedure Before Automating It Exploring an Example Automation

CHAPTER 3 - Using SSH to Automate System Administration Securely

Learning the Basics of Using SSH Enhancing Security with SSH Using Public-Key Authentication Using ssh-agent Restricting RSA Authentication Using SSH for Common Accounts

CHAPTER 4 - Configuring Systems with cfengine

Getting an Overview of cfengine Learning the Basic Setup Debugging cfengine Creating Sections in cfagent.conf Using cfrun Looking Forward to Cfengine 3 Using cfengine in the Real World

CHAPTER 5 - Bootstrapping a New Infrastructure

Installing the Central cfengine Host Setting Up the cfengine Master Repository Creating the cfengine Config Files Ready for Action

CHAPTER 6 - Setting Up Automated Installation

Introducing the Example Environment The Proper Foundation

CHAPTER 7 - Automating a New System Infrastructure

Implementing Time Synchronization Incorporating DNS Taking Control of User Account Files Routing Mail Looking Back

CHAPTER 8 - Deploying Your First Application

Deploying and Configuring the Apache Web Server Sharing Data Between Systems NFS and rsync and cfengine, Oh My!

CHAPTER 9 - Generating Reports and Analyzing Logs

Reporting on cfengine Status Doing General syslog Log Analysis Seeing the Light

CHAPTER 10 - Monitoring

Nagios Ganglia Now You Can Rest Easy

CHAPTER 11 - Infrastructure Enhancement

Cfengine Version Control with Subversion Backups Enhancement Is an Understatement

CHAPTER 12 - Improving System Security

Security Enhancement with cfengine Using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Security with Kerberos Implementing Host-Based Firewalls Enabling Sudo at Our Example Site Security Is a Journey, Not a Destination

APPENDIX A - Introducing the Basic Tools APPENDIX B - Writing cfengine Modules Index