Python System Administration

ally_uk

Hi there am looking at starting to learn more about Python specifically for Administration. I use both Windows and Linux and would like to be able to automate stuff like backups, firewall configuration and have the ability to call system commands / create a fancy menu based admin script with various options a user can select.

Question is how the hell do I go about learning this? I am a python noob don't get me wrong I have followed some tutorials online but have got bored halfway through. You know the ones whee you write hello world and define variables I get impatient and want to learn more sophisticated stuff.

So are there any tutorials / Guides / videos out there for system administration or doing the above I have dipped in the o'reiley book but found it to be a bit dry and not really getting to the point.

If you have any resources or ideas as to how to get going I would be most grateful.

the_Grinch

If you do an import os then you'll get access to run commands that you would typically run on a command line via os.system.

https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.html