Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators: Mastering solutions for real-world administration problems with python

Leverage the features and libraries of Python 3.6.4 to administrate your environment efficiently.

Key Features

• Learn how to solve problems of system administrators and automate routine activities
• Learn to handle regular expressions, network administration (remote device admin)
• Building GUI, web-scraping and database administration including data analytics

Book Description

Python has evolved with time and extended its features towards every possible IT operations. Python is simple to learn, yet has powerful libraries, which can be used in building powerful Python scripts for solving real-world problems & automating administrator's routine activities. The mission of this book is to walk through a series of projects that will teach readers python scripting with each project.

This book will initially setup Python installation and quickly revise basic to advanced programming fundamentals. Then the book will revolve around the entire development process from setup to planning till building different tools. It will include IT administrators routine activities (text processing, regular expressions, files archiving, encrypting), network administration (socket programming, emails handling, remote controlling devices using telnet/ssh, protocols such as SNMP/DHCP), Building Graphical User Interface, working with websites (Apache log files processing, SOAP & REST APIs communication, web scraping) and database administration (MySQL and similar databases data administration, data analytics & reporting).

By the end of this book, you will be able to use the latest features of Python and you will be able to build powerful tools which will solve real-world challenging tasks.

What you will learn

• Learn to Install Python and debugging Python Scripts.
• Understand and write scripts for automating testing & routine administrative activities.
• Learn to write scripts for text processing, encrypting, decrypting and archiving.
• Handle files such as pdf, excel, csv, txt and generate reports.
• Write scripts for remote Network administration including handling emails
• Build interactive tools with Graphical User Interface
• Handle Apache log files, SOAP & REST APIs communication.
• Automate Database administration and perform statistical analysis

Who This Book Is For

This book would be ideal for users with some basic understanding of Python programming and who are interested in scaling their programming skills to command line scripting and system administration.

Prior knowledge of Python would be necessary.