Daily Tasks of System Administrator

jahaziel

What daily tasks do you do at your job? I'm trying to figure out what a System Admin does daily in checking their systems.

Would you check replication daily?

Any comments would be great.

UnixGuy

Do you have a monitoring system in place? I'd start by checking the health of the systems, then backup status, then systems performance (in that order).

Create a baseline of system status, and patching. See when and how to apply patches.

Automate stuff...

joelsfood

Automate everything possible. Reporting, etc.
Work tickets in the queue (VM creation, share creation, share permissions, privileged account creation)
Monthly patching
LUN creation and mapping
Fibre Channel zoning
Troubleshoot alerts - Backup job failure, SAN aggregation space filling up, CPU/RAM/DISK usage on VMs, Vsphere host connectivity, Server hardware failure, network connectivity (not your job to fix, but in many corporations it is a safe bet that you will have to open the ticket to networking and use your monitoring to prove there is something wrong with their systems)

the_Grinch

I'm in a sort of unique position, but do a lot of System Administration. Daily I do the following:

1. Check for alerts after I left the day before
2. Perform any patching
3. Check the status of all the servers
4. Check VPN tunnels

I'm basically a one man shop. Given everything I've been doing I think I am going to push for a raise.

ally_uk

Walk in office load up Dark Souls 2

When the s**t hits the fan I will get alerts hitting my inbox everything is automated nothing to worry about