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Students need to know more than just what command to type to become a successful system administrator. This unique book discusses the fundamentals of the craft, and how to think about the problems that are posed. Through real-world examples the authors discuss the models that experienced system and network administrators use, but rarely document. From a series of philosophical and practical points, the authors, in mentor-like fashion, build a set of larger guides and teach how to think like an experienced system administrator. The "What To Do When" section is of immense utility when students grapple with the many-sided issues faced in system and network administration. Students gain an understanding of the role and responsibilities of the profession and learn the technical skills that are critical to the success of a system and network administrator.
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"Your organization needs this book!"
--Peter Salus, Chief Knowledge Officer, Matrix.Net, "The Bookworm"
This book describes the best practices of system and network administration, independent of specific platforms or technologies. It features six key principles of site design and support practices: simplicity, clarity, generality, automation, communication, and basics first. It examines the major areas of responsibility for system administrators within the context of these principles. The book also discusses change management and revision control, server upgrades, maintenance windows, and service conversions. You will find experience-based advice on topics such as:
- The key elements your networks/systems need that will make all other services run better
- Building and running reliable, scalable services, including email, printing, and remote access
- Creating security policies and enforcing them
- Upgrading thousands of hosts without creating havoc
- Planning for and performing flawless scheduled maintenance windows
- Superior helpdesks, customer care, and avoiding the temporary fix trap
- Building data centers that prevent problems
- Designing networks for speed and reliability
- Email scaling and security issues
- Why building a backup system isn't about backups
- Monitoring what you have and predicting what you will need
- How to stay technical and how not to be pushed into management
And there's more! When was the last time you read a book that dealt with:
- Real-world technical management issues, including morale, organization building, coaching, maintaining positive visibility, and communicating with nontechnical management
- Personal skill techniques, including our secrets for getting more done each day, dealing with less technical people, ethical dilemmas, managing your boss, and loving your job
- System administration salary negotiation tips--the first book that includes this topic!
Chapters are divided into The Basics and The Icing. The Basics are those key elements that, when done right, make every other aspect of the job easier. Things like starting all new hosts with the same configuration and picking the right things to automate first. The Icing sections contain all those powerful things that can be done on top of the basics to wow customers and managers. Do the basics first. The icing is a vision for the future that usually only comes with decades of experience.
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In this chapter, we pull together the various elements from the rest of the book to provide an overview of how they can be used to deal with everyday situations or to answer common questions system administrators (SAs) and managers often have. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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I wanted to improve my knowledge reading just some of the chapters... Once I started reading it I couldn't skip any word.
If you are beginner interested in networking - buy it. If you are senior IT networking specialist - buy it! Money invested in this book will pay you back.
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Interesting read full of good advice,
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While not your typical techie book turns out it's packed full of no nonsense practical GOOD advice. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who has ambition to become a sysadmin or IT manager.
I revert to it on a regular basis in my career when I need a pragmatic common sense view on how to plan/handle an infrastructure or IT service. Somewhat dated on some topics but the quality of the material is more than worth the money.
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Great advice you can turn to any computer environment,
This review is from: The Practice of System and Network Administration (Paperback)
I firmly believe that having a solid foundation in a subject's general principles will benefit you more than any amount of specific technical knowledge.This book gives you the perfect foundation from which to apply your tech know-how effectively in the workplace. Not only does it talk about how to structure and implement a good service, and effective troubleshooting techniques, it also handles non-technical aspects such as how to run an effective helpdesk, or deal with non-technical management. Generally, the authors talk from a platform-independent viewpoint (although you can sense they come from a UNIX background) in order to provide the reader with advice that can be turned to any computing environment. Don't buy this book if you want to learn about Windows, Mac or UNIX. Do buy this book if you want to become more effective and professional in the way you work with any computer platform and infrastructure. It will also make you look at your current infrastructure in a new light, comparing it against what the ideal should be, and what it actually delivers. I found this book to be invaluable.
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