2015

System Administration
Tasks by Automation
Proposal
MANAGING BUILDING IP ADDRESSES AND TESTING
CONNECTIVITY
[STUDENT NAME]

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Description of Program

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Introduction
The work of an IT professional heavily relies on the knowledge of his network.
Any companies network can easily become vast and expansive, creating issues when trying to memorize the IP addresses of every individual machine and printer that comes through the door. That is why the IT Professional must develop tools that will easily aid in any situation that can come forward. Keeping a database of all machines and their IP addresses is a large task and one that can be used with great benefit to any IT department. Such a struggle will be medicated throughout the use of the following script. Rooms will be stored individually in different files that will be kept under the title of the room number/name, allowing for easy organization of IP Addresses.
Maintaining a database if IP’s and using that to test connectivity of systems via ping. This document

will provide a full description of the program itself and what each option will execute, the full source code with an explanation of each output given and explanations of coding inside the script. The document will help guide the administration through understanding the reasoning behind needing such software.

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Program Description
Source Code
' [student]name]
' Final project
' comp 230
' Ray Blankenship