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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? UNIX career path for Admin Post 302881960 by bakunin on Friday 3rd of January 2014 08:13:54 AM
Old 01-03-2014
I am not sure what "TOGAF" means, so i can't comment on it.

"Systems Administration" is such a vast field that i doubt you really are at the end of it. Of course, programming experience could help, as Neo mentioned, but even in "pure sysadm" work there are things you might want to consider:

Systems need disks and these are increasingly virtual disks. How much do you know about SAN, storage administration, zoning, .... ?

Systems need networks. Do you know (at least in principle) how to set up a router, configure a firewall, manage networks, .... ?

Speaking of networks: how much do you know about networks other than IP? IPX/SPX? SNA? 3270? 5250? NetBIOS?

Systems tend to be aggregated in data centers and these need lots of automation: how good are you in understanding techniques like LDAP, kerberos and other cross-system services?

This list is not complete at all, not even near it. No admin perhaps knows all of the things/protocols/interfaces/... above. It just is to illustrate that you still can improve on your knowledge and at the same time stick to what you did the whole time - administrating systems.

I hope these pointers help.

bakunin
 

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