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firechicken
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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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Yankee
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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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TheSkipster
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12-25-00 05:51 AM
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Yankee
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Deets512
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TheSkipster
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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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TheSkipster
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