SALs

SALs are system abstraction layers. They provide a unified interface to system operations. You can use the different available SALs to create powerful scripts that can monitor and manage your services.

A SAL can for instance be used to check if the .ssh directory exists and create it if not:

if not j.sal.fs.exists("/root/.ssh"):
    j.sal.createDir("/root/.ssh")

For a detailed discussion of SALs go to the SALs documentation.