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Research and identify a software that enables automation for IT System Administrator tasks. Compare this software to the built-in Microsoft PowerShell. Why would you consider using the software over PowerShell?
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A Aaron
Evening,
The best alternative to using PowerShell is Putty which is an Open-Source solution which allows for terminal emulation and serial console and network file transfer and SSH connections. You can also use Putty for Telnet, rlogin, and SCP connections. You can establish SSH connections with PowerShell but in Putty you are able to save connections so you can easily connect without having to type in the addresses every time. Using Putty on Windows has been a primary SSH client and is a very lightweight and easy to use program. PowerShell includes more than 130 standard command line tools which allows administrators to perform tasks remotely and locally. PowerShell has been around since the early versions of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 which is around 2016 where as Putty was released around 1999 and has evolved over the years. When researching of other tools, I came across Ansible. Ansible is a powerful automation solutions that work for operators, administrators, and IT decision makers (Ansible, 2022) Using Ansible, it allows a person to deploy scripts uses the very simple language which is YAML which almost makes the configurations look as though its written in plain English. Ansible pushes out small programs to its nodes which are called Ansible modules and able to execute over SSH.
B CODY
Hello Professor Ligon,
I am not sure what is going on but your file did not fully load on my computer, it was just a blank screen the entire time. Anyways, I still looked up PowerShell cheat sheets so that I saw a similar pdf document. These cheat sheets are very useful! They usually contain most of the most commonly used commands and the syntax that goes with each of them. These are very handy to have around when first using PowerShell because each section of the cheat sheet may save 10 minutes of googling.