Chapter 8: Administering Systems Remotely
When working with systems, once the server has been installed, and many times, even during the installation itself, administration can be performed remotely. Once a machine has been installed, the tasks that need to be performed during its life cycle are not that different to the ones that have already been performed.
In this chapter, we will cover, from a connection point of view, how to connect to remote systems, transfer files, and how to automate the connection so that it can be scripted and make it resilient if issues arise with the network link. Administration tasks that can be performed on the system are the same as the ones we described in previous chapters, such as installing software, configuring additional networking settings, and even managing users.
Since administering a system requires privileged credentials, we will focus on the available tools that are considered to be secure to perform such connections, as well as how...
