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The system administrator is responsible for: 1) Setting up and maintaining computer systems, servers, networks and other IT infrastructure for an organization. 2) Performing daily management tasks like installing software, applying updates, managing user accounts and responding to issues. 3) Ensuring the overall stability, security and performance of the organization's entire IT system.

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SYSTEM

ADMINISTRAT
OR
Submitted by:
Charina Marie L. Cadua
IT-1 T6
What is The Role Of the System
Administrator?

The person who is responsible for setting up and


maintaining the system or server is called as the system
administrator. System administrators may be members of an
information technology department. Most of the following
discussion also applies to network and Windows system
admins.
What exactly does a Systems
Administrator do day to day?
 System admins are responsible for the daily management, upkeep and
configuration of computer systems of an organization or business. This
includes installing and managing desktop and laptop computers,
servers, networks, IT security systems and other critical components of
an organization’s IT infrastructure.
 System admins are also responsible for determining appropriate IT
policies for businesses, supervising lower-level technician staff and
also may be in charge of the purchasing of IT equipment.
Administrators typically are IT generalists and do not necessarily
specialize in any particular concentration. However, much larger
organizations may require more specialists as IT needs become more
complex over time.
Duties Of A System Administrator
 Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer
systems.

 Applying operating system updates, patches, and configuration changes.

 Installing and configuring new hardware and software.

 Adding,removing, or updating user account information, resetting


passwords, etc.

 Answering technical queries and assisting users.

 Responsibility for security.


 Responsibility for documenting the configuration of the system.

 Troubleshooting any reported problems.

 System performance tuning.

 Ensuring that the network infrastructure is up and running.

 Configuring, adding, and deleting file systems.

 Ensuring parity between dev, test and production environments.

 Training users

 Plan and manage the machine room environment


The system administrator is
responsible for following things:
 User administration (setup and maintaining account)

 Maintaining system

 Verify that peripherals are working properly

 Quickly arrange repair for hardware in occasion of hardware failure

 Monitor system performance

 Create file systems

 Install software

 Create a backup and recover policy


 Monitor network communication

 Updatesystem as soon as new version of OS and application software


comes out

 Implement the policies for the use of the computer system and
network

 Setupsecurity policies for users. A sysadmin must have a strong grasp


of computer security (e.g. firewalls and intrusion detection systems)

 Documentation in form of internal wiki

 Password and identity management


Cloud Computing And Sysadmin
Cloud computing is nothing but a large number of computers
connected through the Internet/Wan. Cloud computing is now part
of technology and sysadmin must lean:

 Automation software such as puppet, chef, etc.


 Cloud infrastructure such as AWS, Openstack etc.
 Network services in cloud such as Content delivery networks
(Akamai, CloudFront etc) and DNS servers.
 Source control
 Designing best practices for backups, and whole infrastructure.
What is so special about the system
administrator account?
The root account has full (unrestricted) access, so he/she can do
anything with system. For example, root can remove critical system
files. In addition, there is no way you can recover file except using tape
backup or disk based backup systems.
Many tasks for system administration can be automated using
Perl/Python or shell scripts. For example:
 Create new users
 Resetting user passwords
 Lock/unlock user accounts
 Monitor server security
 Monitor special services etc
Most Important Skill To A System
Administrator
 Problem solving

This can some time lead into all sorts of


constraints and stress. When workstation or server
goes down, you are called to solve the problem. You
should able to quickly and correctly diagnose the
problem. You must figure out what is wrong and how
best it can be fixed in small amount of time.
System Administrators Are Not…
 Cookie cutting software engineers.
 Developers.
 It is not usually within your duties to design new
applications software.
 But, you must understand the behavior of software in
order to deploy it and to troubleshoot problems, and
generally should be good at several programming
languages used for scripting or automation of routine
tasks such as shell, awk, perl, python etc.

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