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Tired sysadmin thread.
Tell me about your days sysadminbros.
>>54024048
It's kinda... Meh...
>sitting around fixing people's computer for them
>tiring
pic one you fat neckbearded social jutice warrior faggot
Thought we had cryptolocker but turned out to be some mimic bluffware. Stressful few hours.
>>54024089
>Thinking sysadmin = helpdesk
Typical pleb
nothing happened all week
>>54024060
Sometimes it can be fun:
>be me couple of days ago
>tasked to clean some old workstations in the old labs and setup a new server (old server is old as fuck, 2001 I think)
>backed up and reinstalled the OS in the workstations
>went to do the same in the old server
>there was another user created there
>it's called "adminjohn"
>wtf
>I go into his home folder as root
>lots of porn, movies and old documents
>n-nice_JAV.png
>there was a folder called mfxmedia
>go in there
>mfw
The fucker downloaded 2 girls 1 cup and every other scat movie from them in the Labs server!
At least the JAV was good...
Can I just say how much I hate Hyper-V after working with VMWare for the last 5 years?
>>54024048
IRC, smoking breaks, IRC, smoking breaks, IRC, smoking breaks
>>54024323
sounds like my dream job, apart from the smoking but can probably be pro-active and find nothing to do to replace that.
>>54024048
>managed to make everything in this shithole work correctly
>automate most of my jobs
>everything is already documented and asset tagged
>nothing new being introduced in the technology world (Win 10 is shit, 3D printing is a meme, and Chinese hackers are just doin' what they do)
>might have to fix a stupid user problem like "How do I shift these columns in Excel?"
>sit and browse 4chan all day
>might play on a WoW private server later
I never thought I'd hate a job where I have to do nothing all day.
Newbie sysadmin here, the weirdest thing about this job is the mix of repetitive-physical-shit-a-retarded-could-do and complex applied infrastructure management.
I spent the entire morning wrapping cable ties around cables and then the afternoon trying to load balance 400 production SQL servers.
>>54024315
hyperv is pretty decent nowadays, anon. live migrations, online disk resizing etc all just werkz. plus it's really easy to automate with a bit of powershell.
>tfw you're worried people are going to realize that you don't actually know anything, but you're really good at finding answers and solutions on Google
Client sent an e-mail to ask us to set up a zonefile for his domain name.
We don't host his server.
We didn't register his domain name
We do not provide third party DNS services
Sales department (combination sales/marketing/whatever) still told him we could do it and forwarded it to us.
We had to tell the customer he should try contacting his host provider/domain registrar, it would be a lot faster.
Sales department now is mad at us, "you're making us look bad", because obviously we should have tried to scam the client for doing something he's already paying other people for.
Fuckers.
>>54024469
Welcome to the club. Literally the only skill required to be a good sysadmin is strong google-fu.
The best thing about being a shitty sysadmin is that the few things I actually do know are
A) Pivotal to the company
B) Not documented anywhere
If those fuckers fire me they will beg for me back when the wheels fall off after 1 week.
>>54024383
you better look busy at least doing shit you want (I'm not talking about playing WoW). Learn something new in case you want to move to a better paid job.
>>54024469
Ride the wave Anon.
>>54024397
>cable ties
wew lad u should be using velcro.
>>54024383
I get you, try to bring a book or some movie on your phone to have something to do during the day. Otherwise it's just so slow and long. 4chan gets boring really quickly especially with summer coming.
>>54024397
Why hasn't your company automated the grunt work?
/g/uyz
>be me
>broke assfuck
>love technology, about to go to community college cuz can't afford shit
>thinking about staying at home and get multiple certs (CCNA, A+, etc.)
>but want to get away from home
fuck guys.
sysadmin jobs desktop support etc, doesnt sound bad
what do?
So how long do you think the job sysadmin will be replaced by automation ?
I think in 20-30years it's all automated and either google is going to introduce us to it the coming years.
>>54025733
I hope not anytime soon.
I'm still working on getting my certs.
The hell if I'm going to fall for the CS degree trap.
>be me, naturally anxious with strong work ethic
>accidentally become sysadmin
>have nervous breakdown
>basically just browse web/4chan all day
>waiting to see whether motivation or axe happens first
>life is suffering
Bored sysadmins do any cable management to make it nice?
What kinda security do you guys have setup? Or is it all hardware corp solutions?
>>54024515
>The best thing about being a shitty sysadmin is that the few things I actually do know are
>A) Pivotal to the company
>B) Not documented anywhere
>If those fuckers fire me they will beg for me back when the wheels fall off after 1 week.
B) means you're a bad IT worker and we all hate you, faggot.
>>54026189
>Bored sysadmins do any cable management to make it nice?
I worked with an OCD sysadmin a few years ago who color-coded all the wires in a server room and spent 10+ hours tidying up the place until it looked like a modern art exhibit.
And then the server room got flooded due to Sandy. All that work, gone in a blink of an eye.
>Creating documentation/procedure
>sysbro is raging
>tell sysbro we can't be "checking" other departments work
>sysbro refuses to continue saying he won't work at a company like that
>tell him, he can check, but don't write it down
>refuses
>tell him he can write it down, but if management removes it he won't do the task
>tell him that is fine
>he has a higher wage and health plan
>currently trying to find energy for job search
Who /smallbusiness/ here? I don't have a team or anyone to help. It is me handling everything technology related in the building.
>>54025632
Find a tech school nearby that offers those certs you want
I opened my hand on a cheap cage nut today, that fucking sucked.
>>54026960
automate as much as you can
>>54026355
>B) means you're a bad IT worker and we all hate you, faggot.
>not holding part of your business' infrastructure documentation hostage so that you can't get fired easily
I've considered doing what that other guy did, but I'm so OCD and knowing my documentation is incomplete I'd have to finish it off.
Do you guys have any recommended books on networking and other sysadmin shit? I'm reading pic related right now for a class. Bachelor's soon.
>>54024048
sharpening up ansible skills
next play in the book is sleep tho
>>54027125
Bachelor's in what? I'm in Ontario and I couldn't find anything that remotely pertains to system/network administration.
still getting used to new job
it's pretty comfy, lot less complex and less hectic than old job though for me this is not necessarily a good thing
I like the complexity and learning new shit all the time
gotta give the new job some time though I suppose
>>54027156
BSc Computer Programming/Info Systems. It's like an IT and business degree with portions of comp sci added in. My college is kind of weird because they don't have a dedicated compsci dept. Though, the specialization classes I'm taking are supposed to basically cover the CCNA and beyond when it comes to network administration. We have to do all kinds of other shit though aside from that, including webdev, programming, DBA, businesses classes, etc.
I'm mostly IT oriented but I think it's nice to be well rounded in programming and scripting. Also looks a lot better on your resume.
Jav
>>54024469
This is basically how I felt all the way through studying Information systems.
At the end I still don't know if I actually learned anything. Yes sure some stuff I know but most of the assignments I made are still magic to me which were a combination of using 60 open tabs and constantly asking questions.
I dream about being fat bum that lives at a university and lives off other autistic people's autism bucks
>>54027405
Yeah well the programming stuff I did was very annoying and overly complex shit that I seriously don't know for what I will ever use. Also most of these shitty classes had me stuck trying to install and download shit often for 6 hours to even attempt the assignment.
I also said here >>54027801
that the assignments of some of these classes were magic I also did it in 4 years instead of the 3 years (still shorter than the average student completes it, 4.5 years is average).
>take a look at an automated report I fixed up yesterday morning
>See it has the same error as before I fixed it.
>Open it.
>All my revisions are gone.
>wait_a_second.jpg
>start digging around, my changes are nowhere to be found
>Why.jpg
>realized we went from b node to a node that night.
>Wrote an HA script for our mgmt boxes because my boss doesn't believe in load balancing or some other form of complete disregard for doing this effectively.
>why didn't my sync push the file over
>see that rsync processes are running on the slave node
>so the day prior on the slave (b) node none of my changes got pushed... great.
>look at the version on the on the slave node.
>Same old version, shit
>Look at my HA script, waits for all rsync pids to complete
>check for running rsync processes, sure enough rsync was running so the pids never completed and my sync never copied files over
>two days of work gone
All of this because my coworker suck a rsync with the delete flag in monit and never told anyone....
>>54026355
We our main VoIP guy quit over night and move to another state because his girlfriend dumped him and kicked him our of their apartment. He left no documentation so we're have to figure it out since then.
>>54027979
Today continued, it was a shit show.
>have a script that kicks developers in production out of they are logged in during "trading hours" to an app users account
>developer calls, I keep getting kicked out of session on X prod box when logging in on a read only account (excluded from our script)
>find the script, modified time of two years ago
>shit
>open it up, and start tracing through it.
>script determines what ssh connections to kill by looking at files named with the pid in them from a specific temporary directory
>already shocked at this, continue on
>kill -9 on the pid in the tmp dirs file name
>tmp dir has ~1200 files in it.
>we were issuing kill -9 on 1200 random pids every 15 freaking seconds...
>WTF
> clean up the pid files for now
>how do those get there anyway
>start searching around, this take a while because there isn't a single comment in the script that reads these filenames
>Its a perl cgi script that takes a pid paramater from the url.
>you have got to be fucking kidding me.
>MFW I realize I can pass pids to be killed to our ssh jumpbox by typing in a url
>>54024089
You obviously don't understand what a systems administrator is, and why it is different from a help desk role.
Pleb fuck.
>>54024315
Hyper-V has made strides in catching up with VMWare, still subpar but not AS bad as it once was.
>>54027405
Yeah I was close to taking a bachelor's in 'information technology,' assuming it would be like a sys/network admin type of degree. It's really just computer science + business, which I believe is colloquially known as 'information systems.'
>>54027997
VoIP isn't complicated anon.
VoIP systems typically have VERY large VERY tedious vendor doco.
>>54028171
It's also the ''I like doing stuff with computers but loathe math'' degree.
I recommend it a lot more than CS IF you do not know if you like programming / math work because you're a lot less bound to just one career path.
>>54024308
y-you going to share that JAV, anon?
>>54028171
Check if they offer Cisco sponsored classes. You don't get a cert at the end, but it's basically Cisco Netacad and teaching you all the shit you'll do networking wise in a network admin role, which is usually a part of the sysadmin's job if it's not a separate job all together in an organization. Ask them if they have a lab too, because hands on is bretty gud.
>>54028489
>It's also the ''I like doing stuff with computers but loathe math'' degree.
My program required calc, statistics, and a couple other applied math classes. I am thankful that I don't have to go farther than Calc I, but if you think you'll get along without math it's not gonna happen. At least at my college. Compared to compsci though it's a lot lighter on the math so you're right.
today I documented a list of about 500+ control domains, ldoms and zones.
kill me please
>>54028561
plus an storage noob did a mess with veritas so had to work on that
>>54028560
I actually decided to take a 2 year associate at the community college beside it, because it's completely focused on admin stuff and the training is all hands on. It's also basically sponsored by Cisco. It was a hard call passing up the bachelor's for it, but I think it'll work out better.
spent most of the time sleeping cuz I just out sourced my work to some indians
I gotta pick between Computer Engineering/Science and Petroleum Engineering, but am wary of petroleum due to its volatility.
How tough is it to climb in sysadmin to a good pay?
How do I get a job as a sysadmin with basic knowledge of things? I am ready to lie and bullshit. And google.
>>54028217
It's not difficult but we deploy voip systems to customers. So it meant the rest of us had to add a time consuming job, testing units and shipping them, onto our already full schedule until we hired someone new.
>>54028701
get fake certs, fake degrees, and make sure you have at least 5 years IT experience on your resume.
>>54028689
>How tough is it to climb in sysadmin to a good pay?
anyone got an answer I am curious now
>>54027156
Fanshawe has a good course. We hire a lot of them for their co-op term and we don't seem to get too many idiots.
>>54024477
Or you could just tell them that if they don't know whether you provide a service they should forward the call to the guy in the sales department who does know that kind of shit.
>>54024048
Play guitar
>>54024089
sysadmins don't do that at all lol
>social justice warrior
>>>/b/
>>54028538
SERO-0248
Have fun.
>>54027156
UOIT... but that means going to the shwa for school
>>54024477
>mfw the sales department knows nothing of computers or the services we can provide and then complain that we can't deliver what he promised the client
I hate salesmen
and HR...
>>54028701
Pajeet, is that you?
>>54024469
I studied law. And we literally look everything up.
That's a skill in itself.
Is sysadmin a good job to shoot for
>>54030326
Yes. Yes it is.
>>54030370
Lol cool I watched it crowd and now want to do it
