System Administration: High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors

System Administration: High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors

A system administrator, systems administrator, or sysadmin, is a person employed to maintain and operate a computer system and/or network. System administrators may be members of an information technology (IT) or Electronics and Communication Engineering department.
The duties of a system administrator are wide-ranging, and vary widely from one organization to another. Sysadmins are usually charged with installing, supporting, and maintaining servers or other computer systems, and planning for and responding to service outages and other problems. Other duties may include scripting or light programming, project management for systems-related projects, supervising or training computer operators, and being the consultant for computer problems beyond the knowledge of technical support staff. To perform his or her job well, a system administrator must demonstrate a blend of technical skills and responsibility.

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In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about System Administration right away, covering: List of systems management systems, System administrator, Absolute Manage, Accelops, ActionPacked! Networks, AdRem Software, Advanced Configuration and Power Interface, Application performance management, Application service architecture, Application service automation, Application service management, Automatic server discovery, Automounter, Bastard Operator From Hell, Big data, /boot/, Bruce Perens' Open Source Series, Business transaction management, Business transaction performance, CA Spectrum, Cfengine, Common Authentication Service Adapter, Conky (software), Console server, Conversational Programming System, CPU Speed Pro, CPU-Z, Cross-zone scripting, Cygwin, Data Palette, Deep Freeze (software), Disk quota, Disown (unix), Downtime, EventTracker PULSE, Filesystem Hierarchy Standard, FlexNet Publisher, Floating licensing, Fully Automatic Installation, Ganglia (software), Goverlan Remote Administration Suite, Headless system, High availability, HP Insight Manager, HP Integrated Lights-Out, HP OpenCall, HP OpenView, HP TeMIP Software, Htop, Iftop, In-database processing, List of Inferno applications, Instrumentation (computer programming), Integrated Remote Management Controller, Intelligent Platform Management Interface, Intrusion prevention system, Iostat, Ipswitch, Inc., KACE Networks, Ksar (unix sar grapher), LANDesk, League of Professional System Administrators, License manager, List of Unix utilities, Log management knowledge base, Log monitor, Loginventory, LogLogic, LogZilla, M23 software distribution system, Magic SysRq key, Maintenance Operations Protocol, Microsoft Management Console, MIMIC Simulator, Monolith Software, Multiseat configuration, N+1 redundancy, NC*SA, Net-SNMP, NETCONF, NetDirector, Nimsoft, Nmon, Novell ZENworks, OA&M, OneSIS, Open Platform Management Architecture, OpenManage, OpenNMS, Opsi, Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center, PacketTrap, Paessler, Panorama9, Password cracking, PC Weasel 2000, List of Plan 9 applications, Plixer International, Pragma Systems, Quattor, Raritan Inc., Real-time adaptive security, Remote administration, RMClock, Rsyslog, Runbook, SAGE (organization), SAGE-AU, Sar (Unix), Scalability, Service availability, Service pack, Sharing in paging system, Simple Network Management Protocol, Software deployment, Software metering, SolarWinds, Spiceworks, Splunk, Standard Operating Environment, Su (Unix), Superuser, Sysload Software, Syslog...and much more

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