Whats the most things you do in production
Posted by khaloudkhaloud@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 20 comments
Hi Guys,
Network and security engineer here, i have a decent level in Linux something like RHCSA level, not passed yet but i think i will passe it soon
Would like to know what tasks you do the most in your jobs, thinking about how i can enter as an Linux admin jobs
Thanks
o462@reddit
FR, user support and user error management:
- wrong switch port used or accidental swapped port,
- wrong IP address, wrong/forgotten password,
- badly named machine or wild machine connected (which results in permanent MAC address ban),
- server/VM restart if one happen to have borked themselves,
Plus the occasional dead disk replacement, from time to time.
HTX-713@reddit
1 thing besides security patching is checking logs to fix random issues. You need to know where the logs are AND what is running on your machine. Most COTS store their logs within their application directory, which is different for the system logs in /var/log.
Other things are monitoring server health and doing CRs.
ISortaStudyHistory@reddit
So you have a "decent level in Linux" but aren't aware of what it's like working in production? Hmm...
Working with Linux in an enterprise is much different from working in a home sandbox trying to get new apps to run.
How do your Linux systems authenticate? How do they log at scale? How are user accounts and permissions managed? How do you define permitted applications?
And then now, can you write documents to describe how all of the above work?
If you're not familiar with Change or Configuration Management, or Enterprise Systems Lifecycle Management, study up on those first.
Read up on things like (Open)SCAP, DISA STIG, and SIEM.
Learn how to use a private CA with RHEL, Java, Python, etc...
Make sure you can use Ansible at scale.
Red Hat knowledge is just one piece. There are also business operations standards and practices. Security+ and ITIL concepts cover much of this as well.
khaloudkhaloud@reddit (OP)
I have 15 year experience, and I did a lot of changes in big company, and I understand well authentication, cryptography, certificate etc Used to write bash script with awk to search the logs for example etc To be more precise, I already installed CentOS, installed Ansible and terraform, write playbook and it was used in production where every conf is pushed through ansible I'm familiar with elk, high level logging etc but I don't really know what would be a day to day task of a linux admin
g3n3@reddit
What in the world are you talking about? This is Linux admin? This who post is so convoluted.
khaloudkhaloud@reddit (OP)
Reread the post
g3n3@reddit
What is 15 years of experience if not Linux admin?!
khaloudkhaloud@reddit (OP)
I was asking how to enter the linux sysadmin jobs from a network and security career that's all
H3rbert_K0rnfeld@reddit
You just got AI'd
ISortaStudyHistory@reddit
Please elaborate? OP seems to be a real person. Likes to go fishing.
khaloudkhaloud@reddit (OP)
Of course I'm a real person, it's been a trend accusing someone of being AI
lucasrizzini@reddit
I made a post a while ago, and this one guy insisted my text was written by AI. I didn’t know how to respond to that. That’s becoming an issue..
H3rbert_K0rnfeld@reddit
What's fish got to do with a data mining bot?
ISortaStudyHistory@reddit
How do you know OP is a bot?
H3rbert_K0rnfeld@reddit
OP has gotta be a bot. A moron wouldn't ask questions like that.
ISortaStudyHistory@reddit
You failed the Turing test, sorry lol
zqpmx@reddit
I once swapped a file server during business hours.
BlueFeC@reddit
I have spent a lot of time modifying pam configs to work the way I needed for MFA. I have some systems which have different MFA types for different classes of users and no MFA for ansible plays to connect as.
SiteCrafty2714@reddit
Stop and start services is common. Figuring out why they stopped, make sure it doesn't happen again.
khaloudkhaloud@reddit (OP)
Thks, that's the type of response I was looking