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Job Related Tasks As System Administrator

This document outlines the key tasks and responsibilities of a system administrator. It includes installing and managing operating systems, hardware, software and services. Troubleshooting issues like slow servers, disk space problems, network connectivity and more. It also involves documentation, meetings with vendors, using monitoring and configuration tools, managing vendor relationships, supporting applications, tracking licensing, training, and project management.

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Job Related Tasks As System Administrator

This document outlines the key tasks and responsibilities of a system administrator. It includes installing and managing operating systems, hardware, software and services. Troubleshooting issues like slow servers, disk space problems, network connectivity and more. It also involves documentation, meetings with vendors, using monitoring and configuration tools, managing vendor relationships, supporting applications, tracking licensing, training, and project management.

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Job Related Tasks as System Administrator

Administration
 Install Operating system
 Manage hardware, firmware and operating system
 Services installation and configuration
 Upgrade Linux servers
 Migrate OS from older hardware to newer hardware
 Patch management
 3rd party software installation and configuration

Different Type of Issues or Troubleshooting


 Server is running slow, it take a long time to login
 Disk space is full
 Need more disk space
 NTP is not working
 Server cannot send email Sendmail is not working
 Cant mount NFS file system or CIFS share
 Cannot restart a service
 Cannot reach a server (network related)
 Unable to resolve a hostname from DNS
 Can’t get to the DNS server
 Cant download a new rpm package from redhat.com using yum command
 Log file is too big
 Server loses IP every time it reboots
 Filesystem is corrupted
 Rsyslog is not sending logs to the central logger
 Cant mount samba share
 Samba share is very slow
 Cannot SSH to a server
 Cannot copy files to a directory, permission denied
 Cannot login as root using SSH protocol
 User cannot write to his/her home directory. User home directory is full
 User cant login through username and password
 Incorrect hostname
 Memory is high or full
 Login issue with username and password
 Writing scripts to automate tasks
 Backup is not working
 Setup cronjobs to schedule tasks
Documentation
 Create and update all documentation

Meetings:
 Meet with the vendors or management and keep them updated on the progress of the job/tasks

Additional Tools:
 Monitoring tools
 Documentation tools
 Ticketing system
 Timesheet system
 Configuration tools (Redhat Satellite, Puppet, kickstart etc.)

Vendor Relation:
 Redhat
 HP
 Dell
 Cisco
 Sun/Oracle
 VMWare
 3rd Party vendors (Application related)
 Microsoft

3rd Party Applications Support:


 Any application that will be running on Linux servers

Licensing:
 Keeping track of all licensing

Other Job Related Tasks:


 Being on-call
 Recommendation or introduce new technology
 Attend training or job related seminars
 Project management
 Evaluate 3rd party tools

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