Assignment 1

A common tool for sysadmins is a report of working and broken machines. You are to write a program in a language of your choosing (sh, csh, Perl, Python, C, ...) to do just that.

• The program should be able to check a variable list of machines, either from the command line, or a file, or something like that.
• It should generate ONE report of machines that are up and down , and for the machines that are up, it should also report the number of users logged in, load average, and perhaps other useful stuff.
• This report should be mailed to someone. That someone, should be able to be easily changed, either set on command line, in a config file, or in an obvious place in the program. When you hand in the program, be sure it sends mail to cs209.
• Your program should run on multiple UNIX's (Solaris and Linux at least), and should not need any modification from me in order to work.