CO_22516_Operating System

UO - 4
Mrs. P.S.Gaidhani, Lecturer, Guru Gobind Singh Polytechnic, Nashik.
Services & Components of Operating System
Learning Objective/ Key learning

 Explain use of the given operating system tool.

Contents
 Use of operating system tools.
Use of Operating System tools:
 Operating system is the mode in the computer that turns the machine to a user
enabled service.

1. Device management
2. Users management
3. Security policy
4. Performance monitor
5. Task scheduler
6. System configuration
 1. Device Management:
 Device management is the process of managing the implementation,
operation and maintenance of a physical and/or virtual device.
 When an external hardware is connected to the computer, then the device will
be shown at the Device manager tray or administrative window.
 The hardware may be of various types, like the printers, the USB ported devices
like pen drive, a Tablet or a mobile, a Mouse and a Keyboard or even a camera.
 All Linux device files are located in the /dev directory, which is an integral
part of the root (/) filesystem because these device files must be available to the
operating system during the boot process.
 Example: ls –l /dev above example gives the list of device file from kernel..
2. User Management:

 User management includes everything from creating a user to

deleting a user on your system
 Command line tools include commands like useradd,
userdel,usermod, passwd, etc
 Useadd: With useradd commands you can add a user
 Userdel: To delete a user account userdel command is used.
 Usermod: The command usermod is used to modify the
properties of an existing user.
 Passwd: A user can set the password with the command passwd.
3. Security Policy:
 This is a feature for large corporate and is in the ultimate version of the
Windows Operating System.
 This feature will not be seen in the home computers.
 One can find the local security under the Administrative tools, which one may
get access from the control panel.
 This option allows the administrator to provide access or deny access to some
users to some drive or software on those drives.
4. Performance Monitor:
 Monitor various activities on a computer such as CPU or memory usage.
 It is very tough job for every system or network administrator to monitor and
debug System Performance problems every day
 One can press Ctrl, Alt and Del at the same time, to find the option of Start
Task Manager->Performance
5. Task Scheduler:
 Windows can perform a task at a scheduled time and scheduled date.
 Not only one time does it work, but windows can do a particular task
scheduled every day at a particular time or at particular interval.
 One can find the task scheduler by going to the tools.

 From tools, one has to go to the control panel.

 From control panel, he or she has to go to administrative tools to find
the task scheduler.
6. System Configuration:
 One may find the system configuration by going through the control panel
from the tools.
 Or else can go to the windows from C drive and by double clicking windows
from there.
 In the windows folder one may find the System 32 file and within there the
'Config' folder.
 One may also directly go there by writing on run window just the word config
and pressing the enter switch once.
Summary
So today we learn-
 Use of operating system tools.