Appendix A. What to Do When . . .

In this appendix we pull together the various elements from the rest of the book to provide an overview of how they can be used to deal with everyday situations or to answer common questions system administrators and managers often have.

A.1 Building a Site from Scratch

• Think about the organizational structure you need—Chapter 48.

• Check in with management on the business priorities that will drive implementation priorities.

• Plan your namespaces carefully—Chapter 39.

• Build a rock-solid datacenter or computer room.

• Build a rock-solid network that is designed to grow—Chapter 23.

• Build services that will scale—Chapter 18.

• Build a software depot, or at least plan a small directory hierarchy that can ...

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