W1 - System
W1 - System
System Administration
System Administration
System Administration
Duties of System Administrator
Duties of a Datacenter Engineer
Types of Administrators/Users
Operating Systems Supporting
Administration
Windows
Unix
User Support
OS Maintenance User Account
OS and Network Management
Monitoring Group Policies
Performance Tuning Management
Script Development Security/logon
Troubleshooting Environment
. . . and more Education and Support
. . . and more
Database Administrator
Network Administrator
Security Administrator
Web Administrator
Technical support
computer operator
Types of
Administrators/Users
A database administrator (DBA) maintains a
database system, and is responsible for the
integrity of the data and the efficiency and
performance of the system.
A network administrator maintains network
infrastructure such as switches and routers, and
diagnoses problems with these or with the
behavior of network-attached computers.
A security administrator is a specialist in
computer and network security, including the
administration of security devices such as
firewalls, as well as consulting on general
security measures.
Types of
Administrators/Users
A web administrator maintains web server services (such as IIS or Apache)
that allow for internal or external access to web sites. Tasks include
managing multiple sites, administering security, and configuring
necessary components and software. Responsibilities may also include
software change management.
Technical support staff respond to individual users' difficulties with
computer systems, provide instructions and sometimes training, and
diagnose and solve common problems.
A computer operator performs routine maintenance and upkeep, such as
changing backup tapes or replacing failed drives in a RAID array. Such
tasks usually require physical presence in the room with the computer;
and while less skilled than sysadmin tasks require a similar level of trust,
since the operator has access to possibly sensitive data.
Operating Systems
Supporting Administration
Microsoft Windows
History: http://www.worldowindows.com/wintime.html
1975 - Microsoft Formed “April 4, 1975, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States”
1980 - Xenix released by Microsoft: “A discontinued version of the Unix operating
system for various microcomputer platforms, licensed by Microsoft from AT&T Corporation in the late
1970s.”
1981 - MS-DOS 1.0 released with new IBM PC
1985 - Windows 1.0 released
1992 - Windows 3.1 released
1993 - Windows NT 3.1 released (over 6 million lines of code)
Operating Systems
Supporting Administration
1995 - Windows NT 3.5.1 released
Windows 95 released
1996 - Windows NT 4.0 released
1998 - Windows 98 released
1998 - Microsoft announces Windows NT 5.0 will be renamed Windows 2000
2000 - release of windows 2000 (aka NT 5.0)
2001 - release of windows XP (aka NT 5.1)
2003 - release of windows 2003 server
2007 - release of windows Vista (SELinux Project apply)
2008 - release of windows 2008 server
2009 - release of windows 7
2013 - release of windows 8, 8.1, Server 2012
2015 - release of windows 10
Operating Systems
Supporting Administration
UNIX
Early 70s --> AT&T System V Unix (and C
developed)--> BSD Unix (U. Cal-Berkley)
Today - many variants. Portable and Scalable.
HP - HP/UX
IBM - AIX
Silicon Graphics - Irix
Sun Microsystems - SunOS/Solaris
For history see:
http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/coinfo/history.
html
Operating Systems
Supporting Administration
1982 - Sun Microsystems founded.
PC Based Unix - solaris, SCO Unix, FreeBSD, NetBSD
Linux - Linus Torvalds (Finland) 1991. Free/Open.
(Red Hat Linux – Commercial Version)
Debian, Ubuntu, another popular version of Linux (freeware)