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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Unix Career Path Post 302137754 by tomas on Wednesday 26th of September 2007 05:33:25 PM
Old 09-26-2007
I have done SA work in the past for many years in UNIX and non-UNIX platforms. I would say that a UNIX scripting role would be good to add to your qualifications. But, I'm not sure it will help you gain more UNIX experience from an SA point of view.

In my current role I do lots of UNIX scripts for monitoring of applications, hardware, operating systems, databases, etc. but I work from a list of requirements that development or the SA's give me. So they tell me what process or resources to monitor or mechanize and the desired thresholds and I make it happen using things like Nagios, OVO or Patrol.

Now my SA background got me into my current role. But, I don't know if my current role would get me into an SA job. I do miss the SA job but I really like being able to script more and work a regular 40 work week. As an SA I was always on-call with a cell phone 24x7x365.

Good luck!
 

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answerbook2_admin(1M)					  System Administration Commands				     answerbook2_admin(1M)

NAME

       answerbook2_admin - bring up AnswerBook2 administration tool GUI

SYNOPSIS

       /usr/dt/bin/answerbook2_admin [-h]

DESCRIPTION

       The  AnswerBook2  server  product  is no longer included with Solaris or the Solaris Documentation CD products. Solaris docmentation is now
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OPTIONS

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USAGE

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SEE ALSO

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NOTES

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