System Administration

My Papers

How Many Administrators are Enough?

The following are very, very early drafts of papers I plan to write some day.

Human Side of System Administration
Rules of Thumb for System Administrators
Hints to System Designers from Ops
Challenges Using NT For Production Services
Bootstrapping a Production Service

Profession, Management, Planning

USENIX SAGE
DataMasters - Salary Survey
Business Case: Know The Types: Sizing up Support Staffs
UCB Information Technology Architecture
System Administrator and the Internet Liability Workshop
N. Dean Meyer's RoadMap to Fixing Organizations, Structural Cybernetics
Help Desk Links
Building Internet Datacenters

Research & Information

System Administration Research (NOW)
Principles of System Administration by Mark Burgess

Cross Platform Issues, Standards, Tools

VNC - Virtual Network Computing
Network Shell and NSH:: Perl Module
SunWorld - Pursuing Unix and Windows NT coexistence - May 1997
The UNIX versus NT Organization
Web-Based Enterprise Management
Bootstrapping an Infrastructure
Towards Useful Management
Tioga - Can it work?
Mirapoint - IMAP server

Examples of Support Orginizations

Computer Systems Lab Home Page
Automation facilitating system administration, at UCI

System Monitoring

OpenSec List of Monitoring Tools
mon
Big Brother & Big Sister
Spong
ntop - network top
eEMU
RedAlert
swatch

UNIX Resources

Unix Guru Universe
USAIL: Unix system administration independent learning
Unix System Administrator's Resources (Stokeley)
comp.unix.admin FAQ
Initial System Crash Dump Analysis (Sun)
World Wide Web Server Performance (Sun)
Freeware for Solaris
Solaris - tuning your TCP-IP stack

Free Tools

Amanda, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
AccessWatch
Excalibur DNS Checker
Sudo Home Page
WheelGroup Corporation
Excalibur DNS Checker
Automation facilitating system administration, at UCI
Amanda, The Advanced Maryland Automatic Network Disk Archiver
Cricket
Freeware for Solaris