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