Re: Day-to-day administration tasks
From: Juha Laiho (Juha.Laiho_at_iki.fi)
Date: 12/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 20:00:11 +0000 (UTC)
"Pipiron" <ivan_sardelic@net.hr> said:
>I would really appreciate if someone could help me. I am looking for some
>docs which describes AIX day-to-day admin routines. Please don't laugh. I am
>aware that administrators which work on rs6k or pSeries machines know what
>they should do every day in order to keep the system alive, but I should
>write some kind of document which describes day-to-day admin routines and am
>afraid to forget something.
>So, I am looking for document which on one place gives some kind of
>checklists or overview of tasks which should be run daily, monthly,
>yearly...
It might help if you specified for what kind of purpose you're writing
this document. Also, if you're writing something like this, it sounds
like you already have some rs6k/aix admins nearby - is there a reason
you're not asking them?
And anyway, the list will be hard to write without knowing the environment,
because the duties vary a lot depending on how the overall environment is
set up.
Examples of these differences:
- is there a need to daily change backup tapes to a machine?
- could be, if the systems only have small tape changers,
or if the data is so critical that some tapes have to be
moved offsite daily
- but then, it could be that the backup is run with large tape
libraries, and even the offsite backup is handled with some
dedicated high-speed link to an offsite tape library
- need to daily check some log files for some events?
- perhaps, if no centralised monitoring has been set up
- ... but if there's a well-tuned centralised monitoring,
the appropriate people will be alerted on the moment when
the "interesting" events are generated
- the above also goes for monitoring free disk space; it could be
so that someone just manually checks whether there is disk space
available, but it could also be so that there's a monitoring system
which alerts when disk space has waned below some set threshold
- also, what kinds of services are run in the environment
- network infrastructure services (DNS, DHCP, SMTP, ...)
- databases
- business applications
- ...
... and so on. So, some generic lists could be written, but majority,
and often the most meaningful part, depends completely on the overall
environment.
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