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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition
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UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook, 5th Edition

by Trent R. Hein, Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Ben Whaley, Dan Mackin
August 2017
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
39h 57m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Monitoring

A commitment to monitoring is the distinguishing characteristic of a professional system administrator. Inexperienced sysadmins often leave systems unmonitored and allow failures to be “detected” when a frustrated, angry user calls the help desk because they’re unable to complete an intended task. Slightly more clued-in administrative groups set up a monitoring platform but disable after-hours notifications because they are too bothersome. In either case, fire fighting and hilarity ensue. These approaches adversely affect the enterprise, complicate recovery efforts, and give the sysadmin team a bad reputation. ...

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