System Administrator Appreciation Day: Thank You, Thank You, Thank You
We literally couldn’t do this without you—all of you, doing your sysadmin thing. We had a wide variety of submissions, and we’re pleased to present three prime, premium sysadmin stories over the next week. By chance, these tales fit into distinct categories—the “average” day, saving everything in the 11th hour, and the platonic form of the workday. These stories provide a spectrum of the sysadmin experience. To start things off, we have David T. Klein’s story of daily sysadmin life:
A Day in the Life
It’s amazing how many directions one can run in, and still make progress. I would not say that this is an ordinary day, as that would suggest that things are ever consistent or ordinary, but it illustrates some of what kept me busy on one day during this past week. Between designing the architecture for our new DNS/DHCP environment, supporting our disaster recovery testing, modifying a performance analysis console for our CPE environment that I built over a caffeine-fueled weekend and building a health monitoring dashboard for our incumbent and incoming DNS infrastructure, I somehow found the time to work with our college intern to make sure that he is learning and having fun (while prodding and ribbing him to reach higher and go further), and started reading up on an interesting automation facility to help make our network environment more self-healing.
We’d like to send a hearty “Thank You!” to all who contributed, and all sysadmins. Your work is invaluable and we really do appreciate you.
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