ideas Python / Network Admin

[Marco Bartel]

Norm wrote:
> I was wondering if you would give me some examples (not code, but general
> ideas) of what you are using Python for in Network Administration / Security
> ?
> 
> Thanks
> Norm
> 
> 
Hello Norm,

we use python in many places of our company, here only a few examples:

production monitoring ( counting pieces, runtimes of machines, 
collecting temperature and humidity informations, general automation 
stuff, printing inline barcodes.... )

userinterfaces for different database applications

monitoring of our harddisks in the servers

monitoring of hard/software raid-devices in the servers

many scripts for our mailscanners

the mailproxies are written in python

our knowledge-database / content-management-system is written in python

the flextime of the employees are managed by python programms including 
the hardware stuff (badge readers).

user-management-software ( creating unix,ldap,nis,mail and some specific 
account for new user, editing them...)

and of course a lot of helping scripts for the daily work.

I think there is a lot of power hidden in this little interpreter, and 
there is more possible, as we are currently using.

CU
Marco