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→INVESTIGATION 4: Using Python Scripting to Generate System Information Reports
<li> You will return to the previous dialog box.<br><span style="background-color:yellow">For the '''/''' partition, change the file-system type from '''xfs''' to '''ext4''' and make certain that the Device Type is set to LVM</span>.</li>
<li>Repeat the same steps above for the '''/home''' partition (calculate the equivalent size for '''40GiB''' ('''ext4''' file-system type and LVM as device type).</li>
<li>Add a mount point '''/var/lib/libvirt/images''' (type yourself, check spelling!) for size '''100GiB''' (file-system type '''ext 4 ''' and device type '''LVM''').</li><li>Recheck each of the created partitions, and make certain that the file-system type is set to '''ext4''' and the Device Type should be '''LVM''', unless the instructions above tell you otherwise.</li>
<li>Finally, add a swap partition (Mount Point: swap) for '''16 GiB'''.</li>
<li>Check that your partition settings are correct (you can ask your instructor or lab monitor to confirm), and then click '''Done''' (possibly '''<u>twice</u>''') in order to proceed<br><br></li>
'''Answer Investigation 2 observations (all parts and questions) in your lab log book.'''
= INVESTIGATION 3: Using the Shell Scripting to Generate System Information Reports =
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:You may have learned about creating and running Bash Shell Scripts in your ULI101 course. Shell scripts help Linux users and system administrators to automate repetitive tasks to become more efficient and to help them save time. In order to avoid confusion with syntax, you will not be writing bash scripts in this course. You will be reviewing and building a basic Bash Shell script however still run bash commands to perform various tasks, e.g. to generate information reports for your newly-installed Linux host machine.
<ol><li value="4">Refer to the Bash Shell Scripting Reference Guide prior to proceeding with this section. As you continue, you are required to make Bash Shell scripting notes in your lab1 logbook.</li>
<li>Create a directory called bin in your home directory to store your shell scripts by issuing the command:<br><b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">mkdir ~/bin</span></code></b></li>
<li>Change to that newly-created '''bin''' directory</li>
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<li value="7">Launch a text editor (such as <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">vim</span></code></b> or <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">nano</span></code></b>) Using output redirection, send the output from each of the following commands to create a Bash Shell script file called: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1report.2em;">myreporttxt.bash</span></code></b> in your current directory.</li><li>Copy and paste the text below into your vi editing session for your file report.bash<br> (how do Note that when you copy and paste efficiently in Linux?)<br></li></ol> <code style="color:#3366CC;font-family:courier;font-size:.9em;margin-left:20px;font-weight:bold;"><br>#!/bin/bash<br><br># Author: *** INSERT YOUR NAME ***<br># Date: *** CURRENT DATE ***<br>#<br># Purpose: Creates system info report<br>#<br># USAGE: ./myreport.bash<br><br>if [ $(whoami) != "root" ] # if not logged in as root<br>then<br> echo "You must be logged in as root." >&2<br> exit 1<br>fi<br></code><br><ol><li value="9">Save your editing sessionare done, assign the '''myreport.bash''' you should have one file read and execute permissions (at least for the owner) and run by typing:<br><b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">./myreport.bash</span></code></b></li><li> Did it work?</li><li>Run it again with <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">sudo ./myreport.bash</span></code></b></li><li>Reopen your text-editing session for '''~/bin/myreport.bash''' and add the following lines that has output from all of code to the bottom of the shell script file:</ol><br><code style="color:#3366CC;font-family:courier;font-size:commands.9em;font-weight:bold;"># Create report title<brul><br>echo "SYSTEM REPORT" <brli>echo "Date: $(date +'%A %B %d, %Y (%I:%M %p)')" <br>echo <br></code><brli><ol><li value="13">Save and run the bash shell script (remember to use sudo to run it as root). You should see the output printed to your screen. Use a file redirection <b>></b> to save the output into a file called '''report.txt''' (I hope you are using the up arrow key to issue previously issued commands in order to save time!). We can use a shell scripting trick called "command substitution" $( .. ) in order place results from an command to be used by another command (like echo). Re-edit the shell script and add the following code at the bottom of the shell script file:hostname</li></ol><br><code style="color:#3366CC;font-family:courier;font-size:.9em;font-weight:bold;">echo "Hostname: $(hostname)" <brli>echo <br>echo "Kernel Version: $(uname -rv)" <br>echo <br></code><brli><ol><li value="15">Save, run the script (redirecting the output once again), and view the ''report.txt'' contents (are you using tip that was given to save time?).ps aux</li><li>Edit the shell script and include output from the <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">ps aux</span></code></b> and <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">ip address show</span></code></b> commands (with appropriate titles). </li><li>Save, run and confirm that the shell script is working correctly.</li><liul>What would be the use of keeping this shell script as a Linux system administrator?</li></ol><ol><li value="19">Here are some more "complex" Bash Shell scripts, that perform View the same task''report. Although you are not required txt'' contents. You should be able to understand some of these other tricksthem because you just put that content there, it is recommended that but what would this look like if you view look at the contents of the scripts and save them for future consideration or examples.</li><li>The <b><code>wget</code></b> command can be used to quickly download files file several months from the Internet. Issue the following command:<br><b><code><span now? style="pointer-events: none;cursor: default;color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">wget https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops245/labs/text-report.bash</span></code></b></li><li>Verify that the file '''text-report.bash''' was downloaded In order to your current directory.</li><li>Assign read and execute permissions for make this file by issuing more readable, use the command: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">chmod u+rx text-report.bash</span></code></b></li><li>Run this Bash Shell script by issuing the command: <b><code><span style="color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">./text-report.bash</span></code></b></li><li>Check line to see if it created add a report in your current directory. What is blank line between the purpose of the report?</li><li>Use the <b>vi</b> text editor to view the contents of the file <b>text-report.bash</b>. Can you understand how this script works?<br><br></li><li>Use the <b><code>wget</code></b> output from each command to download, study, and run a header before each command briefly describing what the following shell scripts onoutput is (note that this will likely require re-line:<br><b><code><span style=" pointer-events:none;cursor:default;color:#3366CC;font-size:1.2em;">https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops245/labs/report.bash<br> https://ict.senecacollege.ca/~ops245/labs/report3.bash</span></code></b><br><br></li><li>Try to understand what running all of these Bash Shell scripts docommands).</li></ol>
'''Answer Investigation 3 observations (all parts and questions) in your lab log book.'''
= INVESTIGATION 4: Using Python Scripting to Generate System Information Reports =
Before we can successfully automate parts of configuration using python, we need to learn how to use it. Initially we will duplicate perform simple tasks we have already learned how to do in bash. This way can learn how the language works as we go.
In this investigation you will write a python script that duplicates (as closely as possible with the parts of python we have covered so far) the bash script from file we created in the previous investigation.
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<li>Since we haven't covered if statements in python yet, we won't be able to check if the user running the script is root. For now, we will have to trust ourselves to remember to use elevated permissions to run this script. We will correct this in lab 2.</li>
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<li>Populate the beginning of the file with sh-bang line and block comment equivalent to describing what was in '''myreport.bash'''this script does:
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<li>Save your script and run it. Does it work?</li>
<li>You'll notice that the python script is currently sending its output to your terminal. Since we haven't covered how to write to a file yet, this is ok for now. Just use output redirection on the command line when you run the script to send the output to '''~/bin/pythonreport.txt'''.</li>
<li>Add the extra commands for your python script to also output (with appropriate headings):
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<li>Run your script to make sure it works. Note that the output does not need to match the bash script investigation 3 exactly, but it should be very close.</li>
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# What command is used to get a list of running processes on your newly-installed system?
# Write the Linux command to download the on-line file: http://linux.server.org/package.tar.gz
# Write a Bash Python Shell Script to prompt the user for a directory, and then display the file types for all files in that specified directory (hint: use the '''read''' command and then use the '''file''' command and '''command substitution''' with the '''ls''' command). Test the Bash Shell script by adding execute permissions and run the Bash Shell Script.# Modify the previously created shell script to perform error checking after prompting for a directory to test if the specified directory does not exist. If it does NOT exist (i.e. true), display an error message indicating that the directory does NOT exist, and issue the command exit 1 to terminate the Bash Shell Script. Test the Bash Shell script by adding execute permissions and run the Bash Shell Script.
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