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Real World Administration
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| Hi all. I know some of you work in various IT fields. I was wondering what a network administrator or assistant does in the real world all day? Thanx.
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| Judging by this Forum, we don't do anything but answer posts! 
(You may note that I'm posting mostly at night these days cuz I don't have time to do it at work)
Seriously though, in a Network Operations Center monitoring a large network you would see Montiors watching your network and displaying alarms when it senses a problem. While the techs aren't working an actively down site they may be working with a site to add new services like and ISDN backup circuit or adding dialup capabilities. Other tasks involve bringing up new sites or taking down old ones. Upgrading a sites banwidth is another popular task. Every couple of years you may do a network wide IOS upgrade on all your routers. In this type of enviroment every day is different and you are "forced" to keep learning new stuff.
In this case I think bigger is better because you get to do a variety of interesting tasks.
Yankee
[This message has been edited by Yankee (edited 12-19-2000).] | |
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| Sounds like interesting work. I'd love to give it a try some day.
Cheers,
Skip | |
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| Ummmm Skipster, we work real close together (same state and county) so you can stop by and gimme some pointers!
Yankee | |
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| I'll pop over and give you some pointers too, Yankee!
LOL,
Deets | |
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| Me, give YOU pointers?! Unless you wish to become an Exchange Server guru, it is I who should be learning from you!
I just want to get my hands dirty and work with some real routers. Exchange server work has its challenges, and I like it a lot, but eventually I'd like to try my hand at Cisco work.
Cheers,
Skip  | |
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| Hmmm...Now I know where to go with my Exchange questions. Thanks alot Skip !!! | |
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| No problem, dude.
Cheers,
Skip |
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