June 2003
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
10h 33m
English
This chapter covers administration tasks that require the skill of a senior system administrator. These tasks (see Figure 16-1) are usually difficult to automate or cast into well-defined procedures that can be blindly followed by a less skilled colleague. Some tasks (for example, debugging and troubleshooting) defy automation because they deal with the unexpected. Others, such as system design, are performed too infrequently for an automated approach, or require the judgment of a human.

This is not to say that tools cannot be employed. We will give some attention ...