Systems Administration

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?

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SystemsAdministrationPractices

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Recommended for any SysAdmin: http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/259/

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see also NetworksAdministration