In part 2 of our series about becoming a Systems Administrator, we look at handling inventory, accessing organization concerns and dealing with existing support staff.
In our "So you want to be a Sysadmin" series, we suggested that a great way for folks that are new to systems administration to learn the trade is for them to set-up a server at home and learn how to install and administrate the most commonly used services. This article starts the series on how to do just this on Red Hat / CentOS.
In our "So you want to be a Sysadmin" series, we suggested that a great way for folks that are new to systems administration to learn the trade is for them to set-up a server at home and learn how to install and administrate the most commonly used services. This article starts the series on how to do just this on Windows Server 2008.
Brian takes us through how to use Excel for real-time charting from command-line output. Although this tutorial focuses on monitoring disk space on Windows servers, this charting can be used for any platform - check it out!
This article starts off our series on Policies and Procedures for maintaining a production environment. We start off small, with an introduction and discussion about environment statistics, but there is much more ground to cover in future articles.
Systemtoolbox is launching a new Operations Management section dedicated to the aspects of systems administration relative to maintaining a production environment. For more detail, read on!
he Linux Professional Institute (LPI), launched the "Virtualization and High Availability" exam elective for their LPIC-3 certification program. Read on!
In this editorial, Chris draws links between the suffering economy and the poor decisions that management makes by focusing on the wrong aspects of business.