Programming for Network Administrator

impelse

I was wondering what language would be good to learn for a network administrator. Sometimes for Windows envyroment and sometimes for Linux. I am talking about creating applications, I am talking about to create scripts for maintenance, for security tools, etc.

Just give me an idea.

I looked for in the forum but I could not find any answer, sorry if this title is duplicated.

tiersten

Perl and PowerShell IMO.

msteinhilber

For the handful of Linux servers in our shop, I've made of just plain old shell scripting to Perl and Python. On the Windows side of things it's been VBScript/Powershell and some use of AutoIT.

I kind have an interest in security so I keep tabs on what jobs are available related to security in my area and what they are looking for. Around here at least, a lot of the security jobs (if that's an interest for you down the road) look for Perl, Python, and C.

Sepiraph

Perl is great for string/text manipulation.

dynamik

+1 for Powershell on Windows and Perl and/or Python on Linux.

liven

dynamik wrote: »

+1 for Powershell on Windows and Perl and/or Python on Linux.

Bump

But Bash or shell can be sufficient as well. Typically I have seen most logs being sent to a *nix syslog server. So with the default shell commands that typically exist on any *nix platform you can easily manipulate logs (sed, awk, sort, grep etc...)....


PERL STILL RULES!!!!

JDMurray

liven wrote: »

But Bash or shell can be sufficient as well.

Yeah, but you are likely to find Perl on Linux distros that don't include Bash, or at least don't use Bash as the default scripting shell. It's totally worth it for any "admin" to learn Perl--even those only in the Windows world.

undomiel

I'll cast my vote for PowerShell. I'm absolutely loving it. For Linux though I'll go against the grain a bit and vote for learning Ruby. I personally consider it a much better language than Perl or Python. Ruby's great for Windows too!

Devin McCloud

Powershell all the way!