SystemsAdministration

Last edit April 2, 2004
What is involved in the job of Systems Administrator?

  • Finding out what kind of Computing system is needed by a organization
  • Choosing right hardware and software to build the systems
  • Installing/Upgrading Operating Systems and applications
  • Setting up various system services
  • Teaching, helping users to use the systems properly
  • Fixing bugs and errors
  • Tune the Systems for high performance
  • Protect the system against accident, abuse and attack
  • Protect users' data
  • Managing user accounts and resources
  • Automating common tasks
  • Keep documentation of the systems

While the systems here is thought to be computers in Local Area Network, So?
SystemsAdministrationPractices
Recommended for any SysAdmin: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/259/
see also NetworksAdministration