Re: sysadmin qualifications (Re: apt-get vs. aptitude)
On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 5:44 AM, Miles Fidelman
<mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
> J[...]
> Now.. as to the larger question at hand:
>
> Personally, I run, support, and configure:
> - my own computers (laptop, development "sandbox" under my desk, android
> smartphone, android tablet, backup storage device, printer)
> - my family's computers (multiple laptops and handhelds, storage devices,
> network storage service, more printers, household network)
> - a work-provided laptop (dual-administered by the company's IT and network
> admins - large microsoft environment)
> - a department sharepoint server (shared admin role with several other
> people - running on a virtual machine, someone else administers the cluster)
> - 4-server high-availablility cluster sitting in commercial data center
> (leftover from a hosting business I used to have, currently a combination of
> a development sandbox and a product system for a bunch of email users,
> lists, and web servers - mostly for local non-profits)
>
> Do I consider myself a sysadmin (and/or a netadmin)? Well:
> - I used to sell hosting services for a living, and did most of the systems
> administration involved in doing so
> - I certainly administer a significant number of machines and network
> devices/services, and,
> - for some of them, I'm on call 24x7 (my phone rings if the cluster goes
> down), but...
> - none of this is paid for, and other than the cluster, it's all informal
> - I don't have a particularly in-depth familiarity with things like Nagios,
> serious shell scripting, any of the new devops tools, storage area networks
> - hence, I probably could not go out and get a full-time job as a
> professional systems or network administrator
>
> Bottom Line:
> - I certainly feel comfortable saying that I DO a lot of systems and network
> administration,
> - I would feel on very shakey grounds calling myself a (professional) system
> or network administrator (it's not my day job)
> - I wouldn't put it on my resume anywhere other than as a couple of bullet
> points re. "skills" - certainly not as a title I could lay claim to
>
> Miles Fidelman
>
> --
> In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
> In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
It sounds like you could pass the LPIC level 2 exam with maybe a few
hours of review. Easily. (Maybe you already have.)
One question would be whether you would want your potential employer
to be maybe planning on saddling you with an unofficial sysadmin role
or not.
The reason I jumped into this thread is that I tend to think of it as
a good thing when people start taking responsibility for their own
computing/communicating equipment. Thus it was my intent to encourage
the guy who started the original thread to keep thinking of himself as
the guy in charge of his hardware.
--
Joel Rees
Be careful where you see conspiracy.
Look first in your own heart.
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