Python Automation

Various Python automation scripts

Table of Contents

• Usage
• Showcase
• Maintainers

Usage

• Clone the repo:

$ git clone https://github.com/tekore/Python

• Run the script

$ python3 ./<SCRIPT>

Showcase

Nagios-automation.py

Notable libraries used:

• Subprocess

Used to spawn SSH processes, redirect standard out to variables and redirect standard in to pseudo-terminals.

• Pty

Used to spawn pseudo-terminals as to allow subprocess standard in to be written to.

• Threading

Used to spawn processes on seperate threads as deamons, limit the number of threads active at a time with 'Semaphore' and temporarily lock data sets to prevent race conditions with 'Lock'.

• Queue

Used to enable thread safe queueing of tasks.

ova-downloader.py

Notable libraries used:

• socket Used to get the host IP.

• requests User the communicate with API's and download required files.

• http.server Used to host files on a simple webserver.

Maintainers

@Tekore