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System Administration and Maintenance

The System Administrator
J. N. Rojo IT4R3
Instructor

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IT Deptarment CITC USTP
Information Technology  college of Information University of Science and
Technology and computing   Technology of Southern
Philippines
Discussion outline:
1.System administrator is responsibilities
2. CIO's responsibilities
3. CIO and SA
4. The system administrator account?
5. System administrators are not...
6. Most important skill to a system
7. SA vs NA
1 System administrator is responsibilities

1.User administration (setup and maintaining

account)
2.Maintaining system
3.Verify that peripherals are working properly
4.Quickly arrange repair for hardware in
occasion of hardware failure
System administrator is responsibilities
5.Monitor system performance
6.Create file systems
7.Install software
8.Create a backup and recover policy
9.Monitor network communication
System administrator is responsibilities
10.Update system as soon as new version of
OS and application software comes out

11.Implement the policies for the use of the

computer system and network
System administrator is responsibilities
12.Setup security policies for users. A
sysadmin must have a strong grasp of
computer security (e.g. firewalls and intrusion
detection systems)
13.Documentation in form of internal wiki

14.Password and identity management

The CIO's responsibilities include the following:
1. managing IT staff and developing
department goals;
2. developing and overseeing the IT budget;
3. planning, deploying and maintaining IT
systems and operations;
4. managing the organization's software
development needs
The CIO's responsibilities include the following:

5. developing IT policies, procedures and

best practices
6. staying updated on IT trends and
emerging technologies;
7. developing and enforcing IT best practices
across the organization;
The CIO's responsibilities include the following:
8. ensuring IT strategies and processes
support company-wide goals;
9. overseeing relationships with vendors,
contractors and service providers; and
10. explaining to the board of directors and
other executives the benefits and risks of
new IT-related projects.
CIO and SA:
The CIO is the head executive in charge of
the entire IT department, while an System
Administrator usually supervises a small
group of employees within the department.
The CIO is responsible for creating and
maintaining an organization's comprehensive
IT strategy, focusing mainly on long-term
goals and objectives
System administrators are not…
1. Cookie cutting software engineers.
2. Developers.
3. It is not usually within your duties to
design new applications software.
But, you must understand the behavior of software in
order to deploy it and to troubleshoot problems, and
generally should be good at several programming
languages used for scripting or automation of routine
tasks such as shell, awk, perl, python etc.
What is so special about the system administrator
account?
The root account has full (unrestricted) access, so he/she can
do anything with system. For example, root can remove critical
system files. In addition, there is no way you can recover file
except using tape backup or disk based backup systems.
Many tasks for system administration can be automated using
Perl/Python or shell scripts. For example:
Create new users
Resetting user passwords
Lock/unlock user accounts
Monitor server security
Monitor special services etc
NA and SA:
The main difference between these two roles
is that a Network Administrator oversees the
network (a group of computers connected
together), while a System Administrator is in
charge of the computer systems – all the
parts that make a computer function.
THANK YOU