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06-14-2011

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Thanks guys! I attended both interviews last week. For the Capacity Analyst role, they were satisfied that I had the technical skills (MS Excel, mostly) from my CV and the interview was more about finding a 'fit' for their current team and making sure the applicant was stable and committed to staying with the organisation (they are a fairly large IT services provider and looking to make a substantial investment in training the right applicant). There were more questions at the interview for the public sector Technical Support Officer role about specific tasks which I had undertaken with vendor software packages. By way of interest/comparison, here are portions of the job advertisements for there respective roles. Capacity Analyst:

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This newly created role will suit someone with advanced Excel skills from a reporting background. Experience with Capacity Monitoring data would be highly regarded but is not essential. As part of a regional team, you will be required to contribute to our success through the following: * Monitor automated data collection processes and escalate failures to technical teams * Ensure that data is processed through standard processes in a timely manner. * Produce reports on various platforms for various clients throughout the APJ Region and report in a timely manner to the relevant parties. * Process alerts of predicted capacity threshold breaches and assign to appropriate Service Provider Groups, monitor their progress and escalate where necessary * Review and approve change requests to ensure that the capacity management team is aware of changes related to capacity constraints. Qualifications / Experience & Skills Requirements * Intermediate to advanced skills in the use of Excel, Word and PowerPoint * You have tertiary qualifications and/or relevant operational IT and business experience * You have well developed written and verbal communication, negotiation and relationship-building skills * Exposure to the Capacity Planning function (or Performance Management function eg server/network) will be highly regarded.

Technical Support Officer:

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The role of Technical Support Officer is responsible for the provision of an effective technical support service, maintenance and operation of various ICT and other evaluation and reporting systems and services The successful candidate will have a demonstrated experience in file administration and statistical analysis and the proven ability in the use of CHRIS, Knet & BAPPS.

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icapd

icapd(1M)																 icapd(1M)

NAME

       icapd - Instant Capacity (iCAP) daemon.

SYNOPSIS

       icapd

DESCRIPTION

       The (formerly ) daemon is installed and started as part of the Instant Capacity software on all potential iCAP systems, and respawns itself
       if killed.  If this daemon is not running, other Instant Capacity commands fail.  The operations this daemon performs are vital in  keeping
       the  complexwide  view  of  the	Instant  Capacity  state current.  The following entry is added to /etc/inittab in order to have start and
       respawn itself:

       icap:23456:respawn:/usr/lbin/icapd # Instant Capacity daemon

       This daemon is not started on hardware that is not supported under the Instant Capacity program.  If is installed and running on  a  system
       with Instant Capacity components present (cores, cells, or memory), it sends daily asset report email to HP (if so configured), tracks tem-
       porary capacity, sends exception notifications, and maintains a healthy Instant Capacity state.

       For more information about the functions that performs for Instant Capacity systems, see the located at /usr/share/doc/icapUserGuide.pdf.

       The daemon reports errors via (see syslog(3C)).	Exception notification email is sent to root and to the system contact email address (con-
       figured via the command (see icapmodify(1M)).

       The  daemon  performs periodic operations based on the time of day.  The daemon is spawned by and gets its time zone specification from the
       /etc/default/tz file.  By default, the time zone specified in /etc/default/tz is EST5EDT.  You can specify which time zone the daemon  uses
       to interpret its current time by modifying the /etc/default/tz file.  For details about the time zone format, see environ(5).  A restart of
       the daemon is required before the new time zone value takes effect (that is, kill the process).

AUTHOR

       was developed by HP.

SEE ALSO

       icapmodify(1M), icapstatus(1M), icapnotify(1M), icapmanage(1M), icap(5).

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