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Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook
by Dave Roth Paperback: 371 pages Publisher: New Riders Publishing ISBN: 1578702151; 1st edition (October 2000) The computer program scripting language Perl is described here for those network administrators working with Windows. Rather than teaching how to run a Win32 network, this book teaches techniques for streamlining tasks. The text covers account maintenance, tools, crisis management, monitoring, reporting, logon scripts, processes, Win32 services, and ADSI and WMI. Cameron Laird, co-author of of the "Regular Expressions" on scripting languages and maintainer of the Perl/Tk FAQ: It's this simple: everyone responsible for a Windows host should have a copy of "Win32 Perl Scripting: The Administrator's Handbook." Book Description: Scripting has become an enormously popular method of managing and maintaining Windows NT and 2000 networks, as evidenced by the success of Windows NT Shell Scripting, which has sold over 30,000 copies in 2 years. Simpler than programming, yet allowing greater complexity and utility than packaged network management tools, scripting is now the tool of choice by many of you network administrators. Perl is yet another powerful element of the scripting arsenal, yet since it has been ported to the Windows environment, very little information has been published on how to employ this extremely effective tool. Win32 Perl is so powerful that it can accomplish virtually any task that you may want to perform. Dave Roth, prolific creator of Win32 extensions, is prepared to share his unique insight into how these tasks can be accomplished and provide scripts that can be immediately employed. This book illustrates how Perl can automate many current mundane administrative tasks. Book Info: A resource focusing on the ways to automate administrative tasks and take advantage of Perl's capabilities on the Win32 platform. Provides scripts that enable the reader to more effectively locate registry data, interact with ADSI and WMI, manage user privileges, and check for errors on event logs. About the Author: Dave Roth is the contributor of various popular Win32 Perl extensions, including Win32::ODBC, Win32::AdminMisc, Win32::Daemon, and Win32::Perms. He has been providing solutions to the Perl community for difficult-to-solve problems since 1994. Dave has been a speaker at the O'Reilly Perl Conferences as well as the USENIX LISA-NT conferences. He has also contributed to the Perl Journal and is the author of Win32 Perl Programming: The Standard Extensions (New Riders Publishing, 1999). Dave has been programming since 1981 in various languages, from assembler to C++, LPC, and Perl. His code is used by organizations such as Microsoft, the U.S Department of Defense, Disney, Lucus Films, Digital Paper, Hewlett-Packard, Metagenix, Radcom, the state of Michigan, and various colleges and universities, among many others. Dave helped assemble and administer a statewide WAN for the state of Michigan and has designed and administered LANs for Michigan State University and Ameritech. Customer Reviews Reviewer: Jeff S. LoSpinoso from Lake Hopatcong, NJ USA If I could only have a 5 Perl books, this would be one of them. The technical writing is excellent, and it is essential "fluff-less". The examples are clear and of immediate practical value, many are based on modules authored by Dave and freely available. My personal favorite is the Win32::Daemon module for implementing Perl scripts as NT/2000 services. We can only hope that Dave will write another book expanding on ADSI and WMI. Reviewer: brhoades from O'Fallon, MO USA WIN 32 PERL is not a book for beginners. You are probably a systems administrator looking for solutions to you time-consuming administration tasks. If so, look this book over. The book is written in a small font making it a book you need to read when your mind is fresh. It does contain detailed coding information for the various system problems. WIN 32 PERL contains nine chapters explaining things from Monitoring and Reporting and Logon Scripts to ADSI and WMI. The content page is only three-and-a-half-pages long but the index of fifteen pages more than makes up for the lack in the content section. Finally, there is a 20-page review of other books available to assist you in your administrative needs. Reviewer: Jay Palat from Pittsburgh, PA USA A great reference for Perl junkies that handle SysAdmin stuff. A great guidebook for introducing automation to the Windows Platform. Perfect for the unix admin who suddenly annexes a windows box to their domain. While not the definitive text for Perl on Windows, it does do a good job of breaking out most of the features that would be useful for administrators. Roth focuses alot on automation for getting rid of boring, repetititve task that are necessary to good system administration . His example include some good details on how Windows handles it's versions of unix cmds and processes. From automated log handling to process creation and building new Services to registry manipulation, Roth tackles many challenges a good admin faces for a Windows box. This book is good for any level of user. Newbies can pick up good ideas about system administration, while experts can pickup some valuable tips and scripts for using Perl on Windows. Reviewer: ron fisher from edmonds, wa United States I also have Dave's WIN32 Perl Programming, The Standard Extensions. I consider this to be a better book if you want to understand what the code is doing and to get full details on functions within the extensions. This book is quite simply code. Albeit good code, it certainly won't teach you much unless you're a seasoned UNIX perl geek delving into windoze. If you're able to take the code (free for download on roth.net) and implement it without needing to change it much, then newbies will find this book useful. The first chapter addresses the reader as a potential newbie to perl.. something most of the code isn't geared for if you're starting to learn perl. Most win32 admins that aren't perl hackers that I know would find much of this book greek.. learn perl first is my advice.. and get Dave's other book. If Dave wanted to make this a good book for newbies, he could have done a much better job of explaining the code. Even just putting more comments in the code.. like programmers should do anyway! |
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