Re: Number of Admin's per Server

From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 02/06/05

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    Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 11:54:31 +0100
    
    

    In comp.unix.admin Michael Vilain <vilain@spamcop.net>:
    > In article <Q3dNd.19639$2e7.17777@newssvr12.news.prodigy.com>,
    > "V Crenshaw" <schmickn0sPaM@NoSpAmswbell.net> wrote:

    >> I guess I wasn't clear in what I was asking. We have thousands of midrange
    >> unix servers: SUN, AIX, PYRAMID and HP in the company I work for.
    >>
    >> I'm asking how many AIX servers should one admin be responsible for - max.
    >>
    >> I'll take opinions, but I'm really asking if anyone has seen any written
    >> opinions from industry writers and magazines.

    > "That depends" (the standard answer to overly general and not well
    > understood by the the Original Poster)

    Or just refused, cowardly unwilling to except reality.

    > There's no hard and fast formula and most PHBs are looking for one
    > thinking sysadmins are like widgets. Guess what, they aren't. Good
    > ones know the systems they run and keep them running well, like a Kabuki
    > stagehand who's seen on stage but not really seen.

    100% ack. There's no way of determining this in a general way,
    even if management would like to. It could be 150 or more systems
    in an easy environment or just 25, with a bunch of developers on
    them, keeping the admin pretty busy.

    [..]

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