Question

4.Which utilities can be used to perform remote management of servers?

5. What is the difference between the ifconfig and ifconfig commands?

6. Why should you use SSH over Telnet?

Answer 1

4 . Utility programs commonly referred to as just utilities , are so software programs that add functionality to your computer or help your computer better. These include anti virus , back up , disk repair , file management, security and networking programs.

Utilities can be used to perform in servers are,

1. Solar inds server and application

2. Manage engine application manager

3. Paesslar PRTG Network monitor

4. Site 24 *7 server monitoring

5. Atera

6. Server density.

5) ifconfig and ifconfig commands

Ifconfig is a system administration utility in Unix like operating system for network interface configuration.

The utility is a command line interface tool and also used in the system start up scripts of many operating systems.

Ifconfig commands :

ifconfig commands are used for displaying current network configuration information, setting up an IP address , net mask or broadcast address , to an network interface , creating an alias for network interface , setting up hardware address and enable or disable network interfaces.

6) SSH over telnet :

Telnet transfers data in simple plain text on other hand SSH uses encrypted format to send data and also uses a secure channel . No authentication or privileges are provided for users authentication. As SSH is more secure so it uses a public key encryption for authentication.