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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? They won't need so many sys admins anymore Post 302957109 by sparcguy on Wednesday 7th of October 2015 06:21:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Peasant

It is the dronification on the works.
They want people to obey, not to think.

Cloud ? It still needs sysadmin love.
Now you are not connecting physical servers and switches, but virtual ones.
It still requires knowledge how things work and how they should be configured.

Couple of sysadmins for thousands of servers ?
Yea, and N of insert made up drone positions.

As for HP, i'm working with HP gear for last 6 years on mostly all levels.
I cannot speak of the past (a bit too young...32), from what i've heard from 50+ folks HP was a great company when it innovated.
Shit started happening when instead of doing the work, they started buying other companies and playing money games.

HPUX is a great operating system standards compliant, but the hardware that follows today is just bad. Itanic sucks on so many levels (power, performance..)

Nobody can touch x86 - it is cheap, has the fastest CPU and does the job on the operating system you choose (solaris variants, linux varians, bsd etc...)

Who would choose Itanic,SPARC or POWER over Xeon for a new project ?
What advantages do you see in such selection ?
Think twice and ahead Smilie

I said with cloud they don't need so many I didn't say they don't need anymore sysadmins.

In HP when I first joined years back my KPI for unix server was originally 20 boxes per engineer then it jumped to 40 and they bumped it up again 80 boxes per engineer.

I spoke to the overseas team taking over the support from local they have 20 guys managing over 3000 physical servers. That's over 150 server per engineer almost double. And that may not even be their real KPI it may be even higher so how do you win against low cost?

This and all other layoffs is all about money costs pressures and who is able to give more bang for their $$$$$, your skillsets may be very good but you cannot win low cost and you could still find yourself getting cut.

The business guy he is in-charge not you and he doesn't know you or what you look like or your family money problems all he sees everyday is a number on a spreadsheet that he wants to cut because he is answerable to the people above him all the way to the ceo and then finally the shareholders who every year want to see more returns performance dividends.

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luser

LUSER(8)						      System Manager's Manual							  LUSER(8)

NAME

       luser  - process to control the clueless individuals who (mis)use computer systems, peripheral devices and system administrators. Word play
       on "loser" and "user".

SYNOPSIS

       luser [-d] [-g<level>] [-s] <lusername>

DESCRIPTION

       luser is the primary tool a system administrator uses to manage end-user requests. This powerful tool can actually cause the specified user
       to perform actions as specified by the flags.

       With no flags, luser deletes every running process owned by the specified <lusername>.

OPTIONS

       -d     Disk reclamation mode. Remove all files in the home directory of <lusername>.

       -g<level>
	      Grovel mode. Causes the specified luser to make an act of contrition to the sysadmin for past sins. The <level> indicates the sever-
	      ity of the contrition:

       LEVEL

       0      User makes a sincere apology and promises to never do it again.

       1      User buys sysadmin a large quantity of sysadmin's favorite beverage.

       2      User signs over ownership of his/her car to sysadmin.

       3      User resigns from the company after writing a long letter of apology detailing his/her failings.

       4      User commits ritual suicide by sucking on a power strip and grounding himself to a conduit.

NOTES

       Sysadmins are encouraged to use the -s option as a way to smarten up the world's user base. Use the -g option at level 4 outside  the  con-
       fines of the machine room. The more lusers that witness the act, the better.

SEE ALSO

       sysadmin(1)

BUGS

       Occasionally,  the  luser may survive the effects of luser -g4.	In that event, a second invocation of the command will usually prove to be
       fatal.

HISTORY

       Written by Eric L. Pederson <eric@bofh.org.uk>.

								 25 September 1995							  LUSER(8)