What makes a good System Administrator? Of course he will keep thesystems up and running. But who do you become a good Sysadmin? What doyou need to do. The adminzen rules are the gut feeling of a good sysadmin put into 8 Basic Principles. It doesn't matter if you use RedHat, Debian, FreeBSD or Windows. The basic rules are allways the same.Oh, by the way. Do you have backup? Oh, nice. Does it restore to? I will show you what you should think about, when you administer yoursystems.
This talk is of course for sysadmin, and people who want to become a good sysadmin or for the good sysadmin who want to know why ;-).

 

Jens Kuehnel is a freelancing consultant and trainer. And works at the moment as sysadmin and local linux guru in residence for the German Stock Exchange (Deutsche Börse).