04-06-2009
I have no idea about the US - I can only speak about europe.
Since we're in the middle of a recession, the salaries are pretty down, and a lot of our jobs had been outsourced to cheaper countries, eg India, eastern europe, China, Singapore ... its very difficult to get a job right now when you have some kind of expectations of what you need to earn. This might obviously be better when you're a newbie - but still, open positions are rare, you might get a job when you know the right people, dont even expect a response to your cv.
Best entry is probably Linux since its so easy to get the skills and sufficient training yourself at home - followed by Solaris that is as well available for PC.
But please be aware - having / using Linux at home and being Unix SA in a big company are two very different things. And a mistake made on a production environment because of missing experience can cost your company millions of dollars per hour - so you should be either very careful and doublecheck with someone more experienced what you're going to do than just try and error.
I would always recommend to have some professional training from the Vendor (Sun/IBM/HP) and at least an entry certification before applying for a sysadmin job. Going into engineering without having practiced the OS is not a good idea - you should definitely have reached senior level (5+ years in your OS) knowledge before thinking about ... and even for a normal system administrators position, a solid IT background knowledge (Hardware, Networks and maybe a bit scripting) is recommended ...
Good system administrators will probably always find a job - somewhere. The question is very likely rather what you expect to earn in your job, how mobile are you and how much experience can you bring into your job - but as long as there are computers, there will be SAs ... and the more specific and rare your skills are, the more demand in your area of expertise, the more likely you'll get a well-payed job.
I do not really understand the 1-5 level model - I am aware about Junior SA - SA - Senior SA and SME (special matter expert, as well called level3 - of any special area of expertise - this could probably count as well as systems engineer).
BTW: a software engineer is a developer at a senior level
Kind regards
zxmaus
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globus-job-status
GLOBUS-JOB-STATUS(1) GRAM5 Commands GLOBUS-JOB-STATUS(1)
NAME
globus-job-status - Check the status of a GRAM5 job
SYNOPSIS
globus-job-status JOBID
globus-job-status [-help] [-usage] [-version] [-versions]
DESCRIPTION
The globus-job-status program checks the status of a GRAM job by sending a status request to the job manager contact for that job specifed
by the JOBID parameter. If successful, it will print the job status to standard output. The states supported by globus-job-status are:
PENDING
The job has been submitted to the LRM but has not yet begun execution.
ACTIVE
The job has begun execution.
FAILED
The job has failed.
SUSPENDED
The job is currently suspended by the LRM.
DONE
The job has completed.
UNSUBMITTED
The job has been accepted by GRAM, but not yet submitted to the LRM.
STAGE_IN
The job has been accepted by GRAM and is currently staging files prior to being submitted to the LRM.
STAGE_OUT
The job has completed execution and is currently staging files from the service node to other http, GASS, or GridFTP servers.
OPTIONS
The full set of options to globus-job-status are:
-help, -usage
Display a help message to standard error and exit.
-version
Display the software version of the globus-job-status program to standard output.
-versions
Display the software version of the globus-job-status program including DiRT information to standard output.
ENVIRONMENT
If the following variables affect the execution of globus-job-status.
X509_USER_PROXY
Path to proxy credential.
X509_CERT_DIR
Path to trusted certificate directory.
BUGS
The globus-job-status program can not distinguish between the case of the job manager terminating for any reason and the job being in the
DONE state.
SEE ALSO
globusrun(1)
University of Chicago 03/18/2010 GLOBUS-JOB-STATUS(1)