Alert Escalations Once you have alerts set up, the next step is to configure alert escalations. Even the best-designed notification system alerting the most well intentioned sysadmin will fail from ...

Here, I discuss my experience with automation and describe what, when, why and how you should (and shouldn't) automate. Why You Should Automate There are a number of different reasons why you should ...

The senior sysadmin asked Logan if he had run the script, checked his work and quickly diagnosed the problem – Logan hadn't commented out one line of code. Nobody had told Logan that was necessary.

PCMag: How steep do you think the learning curve is for sys admins who don't code or use the command line much? Hightower: At a high level, if you can start and stop a Windows or UNIX service from ...

On the sysadmin side there is 2 of us and the rest of the department are programmers (and will have their own metrics that will be different--about 6 of them).

Celebrating the 17th annual SysAdmin Day, we recognize their dedication and workplace contributions and want to show appreciation for their talent.

After 8 years as a sysadmin (and ~4 as desktop support before that) I think it’s time to move on or move up. I’m not sure to what exactly, but I’m pretty sure I’m done with break/fix. My ...