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Half-minute handover: when the AIX admin goes MIA
Clean Handover For ... ahem .. undisclosed reasons, an organisation's AIX administrator has gone Missing in Action . The empty shoes are to be filled by you. You've never heard of the company "Clean Doubt" and never logged into their systems. You don't know what applications or databases they run, so you're full of questions for the handover meeting. You are introduced to the boss who has an iron handshake and a gravelly voice. His name is Mr. Clean "call me Squeaky" - and he explains that the previous sysadmin "had to... [More]
Tags:  hmc vios oslevel handover backfill mia aix sysadmin ioslevel admin nim version |
Wanted: Superhero (mind reading skills an advantage)
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WHAT WOULD THEY DO WITHOUT YOU? You're the system admin
extraordinaire. You're indispensable. You're the fix-it guy for
everything. You can multithread and keep a gazillion things in your head at once.
No one knows what you do, but the systems simply won't run without
you. You've been at the company forever... [More]
Tags:  system_administration unix admin technical_writing single_point_of_failure documentation aix |