As a sysadmin you know better than everyone the mind-blowing complexity of the modern corporate network. Your company’s computer systems are a digital riddle, wrapped in a mystery emulator running in a turnkey hybrid cloud enigma.
At any time, on any day, you could find yourself staring at a unique system failure that has never, ever, ever happened anywhere before in the history of the universe. Whatever the alignment of the intermeshed, inadequately logged events that caused the glitch, slowdown, shutdown, failure, failover, fire, disaster or apocalypse, it’s your job to fix it. Now. Against the clock. Backwards. In heels.
Your job is basically impossible.
Well, no more. Today is SysAdmin Day and we’re here to help. We’ve put our heads together and come up with a simple and easy to understand guide to fixing any computer problem on any network, anywhere. Period.
Our foolproof flowchart is yours to cut out and keep:
If you want some advice that might actually help you…
…check out our 5 tips for making life easier this SysAdmin Day.
To keep you armed and ready for Sysadmin Day and beyond,
we’re giving away stacks of IT Survival Kits.
All you have to do is tell us a story about your experience of ‘just another day in IT’.
>> Tell your story now! <<
Bryan
Thanks Mark, that’s pretty good. Though I won’t be able to defer my chart to anyone; I fly solo here.
HSAD anyway!
Anonymous
Gold!
James Beckett (@hackery)
> easy to forget how good H2G2 was isn’t it
Never! The mere thought hadn’t even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. Actually watched the first few eps again just a few nights ago.
Paul Ducklin
WATCHED? How do you watch a book? Or a radio show :-)