Re: Remote administration of a 2-node sun cluster running Solaris 5.8

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 01/30/05 

Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 06:06:38 GMT

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, mario wrote:

> I cannot expect any help from the people in the data centre other than
> giving them dumb instructions like 'insert CD into CDROM drive' etc.

Move to a better datacentre!

> I would need to be responsible for absolutely everything about this
> server including
>
> a) administering patch and full fledged solaris upgrades
> b) security upgrades and patches
> c) network administration of this cluster
> d) performance management
>
> I need to submit a report to my management, whether this is feasible or
> not.

In short, yes. Assuming the correct infrastructure is in place.

> Secondly, I need to recommend what are the pre-requisites before I can
> take on the sysadmin responsibility, like access to console etc (i
> don't know how to do this)

With all due respect, frankly, if you need to ask this question, I'd
say your first prerequisite is to hire someone who DOES know how to
do this stuff! And lots of reading. 

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