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Old 05-08-2015
Does Shell Scripting in a Resume carry value?
Hi All,

I have learnt a lot by getting help from these forums. By the knowledge acquired, i have done the following automations which have helped prevent financial loss to my client.
  1. Detecting when the listener goes down - Earlier, a downstream team used to inform us whenever they were not getting responses. Once I set up the script in cron, we have avoided such an embarrassing scenario and have taken steps to minimize the impact
  2. Detecting when Queue depth is over a certain threshold - This has helped in preventing MQ Space being full and server MQ Crashing.
  3. Failed Records detection - All the failure transactions are recorded in logs. I set up a script once daily to capture all these transactions in a text file and email to entire team. It also deduced the reason for these failures from logs and sorted the records by upstream type wise.

I know its a silly qs, but do these things carry weight as programming skills? I wanted to include the below items to my resume
  1. Experienced with Shell Scripting and Linux Architecture
  2. Setup Monitoring scripts which helped prevent financial loss for client
  3. Created Scripts to log failed transactions and find their root cause.

How else can i modify the above points to better fit my resume?
Last edited by rbatte1; 05-11-2015 at 10:33 AM.. Reason: Converted text to LIST=i block.
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Old 05-08-2015
Yes. It carries weight. In fact, if you can't script, I won't hire you... Smilie

All the items you mentioned are fine in a résumé.
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Old 05-22-2015
These points definitely add value to your resume but make sure that you are not bluffing. Because, the interviewer might expect a lot seeing the points . So if you're just a beginner, try to add "basics" in each bullet
 
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