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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Script to update rsyslog.conf and auditd.conf Post 302997776 by stomp on Friday 19th of May 2017 08:42:36 AM

05-19-2017

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An (Automation-)Tool-independent script won't likely exist because those scripts are the main task of an automation tool. So those scripts are always tool-specific, if you want to take the advantage of using those tools.

If you do not use the specific features of your automation tool you'll effectively end up writing your own.

The normal way in Chef is to use the file or cookbookfile Resource, which simply just replaces files with fixed content or based templates, how you wish them to be and gives you possibilities to define, what is done when and if changes are made(e. g. restart special services). Pretty basic stuff. A good automation suites enables you to define your actions from a general default with use-case groups and deviations down to groups and single special cases.

Do you have an automation tool already in production? If that is so, I suggest to use it. Your automation tool should have been chosen to support all devices/servers you are running within your organization.

In general testing is badly needed for automation which only makes sense, if you have a lot of similar or identical setups. If not you have very much work with testing for every used platform.

So the first questions would be:

Are automation tools already used?
If yes, is that tool suited to your task(probably yes)?
If not should you decide to integrate such a tool in your organization? (Quite a different sized task)

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netwox

NETWOX(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NETWOX(1)

NAME

       netwox - examples/tools of the network library netwib

VERSION

       The version installed on this system is 5.36.0.

IMPORTANT

       Manpage do not contain a lot of information. Rather read netwox-5.36.0-doc_html.tgz.

SYNOPSIS

       netwox number [ parameters... ]
       netwox number --help
       netwox number --help2
       netwox

PRESENTATION

       Toolbox netwox helps to find and solve network problems.

       It provides 222 tools :
	- udp/tcp clients/servers
	- spoofing
	- sniffing
	- address conversion
	- etc.

       Netwox is mainly oriented towards network administrators and security auditors.

       Some tools are only a simplified implementation, while others are very sophisticated.

       Netwox is available under the GNU GPL license.

DESCRIPTION

       number number of the tool to use

       parameters
	      parameters for the chosen tool number.  Parameter --help shows help.  Parameter --help2 shows description.

       When using netwox without number and parameters, it enters interactive help mode. In this mode, the user has to select a category by press-
       ing a key. Then by choosing a tool number, its corresponding usage is displayed. Note: netwag is easier than interactive help mode.

EXAMPLES

       netwox 23 --help
	      display simple help for tool number 23

       netwox 23 --help2
	      display full description of tool 23. It also display its description.

       netwox 23
	      run tool 23

       netwox 23 --extended
	      run tool 23 with --extended parameter

       netwox 23 -e
	      run tool 23 with -e parameter (synonym for --extended)

       All the tools are not described in this manpage.  Reading netwox-5.36.0-doc_html.tgz is recommended.

SEE ALSO

       netwib(3) netwag(1)

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