May 2017
Beginner
552 pages
28h 47m
English
Content preview from Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook - Third Edition
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Listing all available machines on a network
When we monitor a large network, we need to check the availability of all machines. A machine may not be available for two reasons: it is not powered on, or because of a problem in the network. We can write a shell script to determine and report which machines are available on the network.