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Am in need of a help; and browsing through the forum,Am a newly certified SCSA , and looking for job openings in the Unix field. My biggest problem is , am totally blank when it comes to the idea of routine jobs that are performed by unix admins. So in interviews, I have great difficulty in explaining what I do throughout the day. If you could help me with idea of day to day jobs/activities performed by an Unix Admin , would be much obliged.
You must be having a 'daily jobsheet' or something like 'daily checklist' ...could you share that with me .Please, it would be of much help.

Regards
Angshu

'Da Checklist'You could go on and on and on and on.
What is an SCSA ... never mind, I'll google it.

Thanks Cameron for your reply.... I am looking for a sort of Daily/Weekly/Monthly jobsheet/checklist that an Unix Admin is supposed to refer.

Could you help please...

Off the top of my head....

1. machines have to start, did this go okay, was it scheduled, were any suprises found, did all the expected/required services/daemons start?

2. machines use resources, is their sufficient capacity for the anticipated tasks? What do you do if there isn't?

3. what is appearing in the logfiles, are the things you expect there, and the things you don't not there?

4. how are the machines performing?

5. are the backups scheduled? occuring? reliable? offsite?

6. are there any security alerts from the manufacturer or third parties?

7. ditto for software updates.

8. then do this for a load of machines.

9. think about proactively avoiding problems

10. and automating as much as possible, grow your own toolbox for this

11. make sure all changes are authorised through change management

12. be responsive to emergencies and failures