What you’'ll learn:
Solve real-world system administration problems using Python
Manage devices with SNMP and SOAP
Build a distributed monitoring system
Manage web applications and parse complex log files
Monitor and manage MySQL databases automatically

Who this book is for
This book assumes that readers already use Python and are comfortable with the language. The basic knowledge of installing packages on various operating systems is discussed.

Table of contents :
Table of Contents
1. Reading and Collecting Performance Data Using SNMP
2. Managing Devices Using SOAP API
3. Creating a Web Application for IP Address Accountancy
4. Integrating the IP Address Application with DHCP
5. Maintaining a List of Virtual Hosts in an Apache Configuration File
6. Gathering and Presenting Statistical Data from Apache Log Files
7. Performing Complex Searches and Reporting on Application Log Files
8. A Web Site Availability Check Script for Nagios
9. Management and Monitoring Subsystem
10. Remote Monitoring Agents
11. Statistics Gathering and Reporting
12. Distributed Message Processing System
13. Automatic MySQL Database Performance Tuning
14. Using Amazon EC2/S3 as a Data Warehouse Solution