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Why do most sysadmins prefer Vim over Nano?

Posted by Darshan_only@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 685 comments

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I remember preferring nano but vi is already there by default so had to just get with it.

Is your ticket submission page accessible publicly?

Posted by lawno@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 21 comments

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We use a sas solution so it's technically publicly reachable, but they need to login.

Holy hell... i haven't dealt with HP servers in 20 years... I am now dealing with HPE Support. This is bonkos.

Posted by ApexOnWheels@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 24 comments

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Their support leaves much to be desired. When I worked under a dod org, they wanted me to download something from a .ru domain!

Average severance?

Posted by hack_daniels@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 62 comments

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The company can change those for later lay offs too. I recall one company I worked for that had some very generous severance the first round, but got more stingy as the rounds went on.

Migrating off of AS/400 as a Small Business

Posted by down_with_the_birds@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 130 comments

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No kidding, we don't have AS/400s but some other kind of IBM stuff. The techs that come out are always so old, one said he was basically retired but did this part time.

Personal Device

Posted by temistrator@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 316 comments

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Flagship Android so it just works, have iPhone for work.

Curiousity: Female vs Male Ratio

Posted by sugarmagnolia_23@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 365 comments

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I've never had one, haven't had another female on my team since moving out of the tech support. Maybe I'm token female 😳?

What is your experience with US Cloud?

Posted by nayhos26@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 7 comments

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As a customer, they have been helpful at times. Once I got what I assume was a newbie and they gave me AI garage, I called them out on it and they got an adult tech to help. Sometimes, my case ends up getting escalated to Microsoft, which it did here, but they/AI wrote a fantastic handoff and I didn't have the 10 rounds of back and forth again with Microsoft! Microsoft actually pinpointed the exact cause of an issue that plagued us for months!

USA-based Admins: How do you negotiate a wage?

Posted by pi8b42fkljhbqasd9@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 63 comments

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The only benefit you might be able to negotiate is PTO. The health, vision, dental plans are usually the same plans offered to all employees.

Comparing two folders with subfolders that will output the file differences in each folder

Posted by InterestingAmoeba797@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 54 comments

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We use BeyondCompare.

ULPT purchasing items from the clearance section, peeling off the label and returning with no receipt for full price store credit

Posted by Exciting_Nectarine76@reddit | UnethicalLifeProTips | View on Reddit | 3 comments

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You're just going to get the lowest price, so what you paid or even lower.

Unethical question for those working in EDU: Do you leverage student discounts?

Posted by xCogito@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 68 comments

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Did the opposite, when I was a student I used my edu for an employee discount on my cell bill. To be fair, I did work for my college for a few months.

How do you document access + tool workflows without repeating yourself 10x a week?

Posted by _salman@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 44 comments

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Should have a canned message to copy and paste to send them on their way

Why did you want to become a sysadmin?

Posted by Abject_Serve_1269@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 218 comments

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Same, started at help desk.

Manager has left and I have inherited the responsibility

Posted by Immediate_Tower4500@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 121 comments

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You have different patch groups, a test one then a production one. Only approve for test then approve for production already you have tested.

On-call duties are to much.

Posted by kungfu_jim@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 96 comments

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You have set hours you're on call? What staffing does your company have? What happens if they call at 11? If there are calls everyday, they should be staffed to handle that. On call should be for true and unusual show stoppers.

The RD Licensing grace period has expired, but licenseserver is specified

Posted by LimpWithoutAName@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 5 comments

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Do you have Palo Alto firewalls? Their content filtering was blocking RDS license server traffic last week.

Is CrowdStrike too big to fail?

Posted by Aggressive-Estate-12@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 57 comments

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SolarWinds is still around.

800 euros gross salary per month as a sysadmin at one of the biggest universities in Eastern Europe??

Posted by SourdoughBlob@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 145 comments

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No wonder my old company offshored to Bulgaria.

What was the lowest skill Sysadmin you ever worked with like?

Posted by SeriouslySally36@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 815 comments

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This guy worked at a different site, but I'm walking him thru something while we're both on the console view. It's time to copy something, he highlights it, right clicks, copy, right again, paste. (Instead of CLT+C and CLT+V...)

How Can I Obtain a Secuirty Clearance?

Posted by thelug_1@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 40 comments

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It is one of those who you know things. So if you aren't prior military, if someone can recommend or put in a good word for you, then the company is more likely to sponsor you for clearance.

What were some trendy conference swag items that have largely disappeared?

Posted by duucfho@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 287 comments

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Reusable bags or those drawstring backpacks to carry all your other swag.

Would you take better pay or the job and title for less

Posted by Abject_Serve_1269@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 116 comments

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Money money money

Sysadmin tasks

Posted by mortal_martian@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 4 comments

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Tedious? Can you automate it?

Something like Air Tags for tracking expensive equipment?

Posted by cisco_bee@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 75 comments

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One is our vendors had AirTags in the four pallets of equipment they sent us, they pulled them when they did the on-site install. Seems like a cheap solution for thousands of dollars worth of equipment.

Union

Posted by spartan_STX@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 355 comments

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It seems already hard enough for dead weight employees to be fired now, I'm not sure I would support a union that would give those bad employees even more protection.

What do you say you do?

Posted by Phate1989@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 153 comments

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Systems Admin, had one lady think it was like an administrative assistant and asked what I wanted to do with my career :0.

What's after Systems Admin

Posted by DasOosty@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 263 comments

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Architect

MSA 2060 SAS Controller Firmware Upgrade

Posted by MrWoodMan123@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 7 comments

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This, not sure what the other poster was pinging. If they were pinging controller A or B then some loss would be expected while they rebooted. No disk interruptions when I've done the upgrades on my SANs, it automatically moves the workloads between each controller during the upgrade process.

Actual DR testing

Posted by Significant_Fig_2126@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 28 comments

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Testing inside a "bubble" so production isn't affected. After those become successful, we plan one where we flip over to DR. Might be a weekend or something to minimize impact. After comfortable with that, we plan one where we run in DR for a week with plan to flip it back to original production afterwards.

Why do (most) vendors don't give free training / certs ?

Posted by Alzzary@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 73 comments

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So they can give you more "value" by lumping included training in your contract.

Can't get wordpress to work on centos7.

Posted by FourSidedCircle@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 52 comments

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Is the new site configured correctly? Did you try throwing the WordPress files into a subdirectory of one of the existing working sites?

DR site, what to use?

Posted by Set-AwesomeUser@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 26 comments

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I've used Zerto in the past on a VMware stack at a MSP. RPOs in the seconds and RTO in under 2 hours. The RTO was kind of dependent upon other config work needed to get things working in DR (DNS changes, repointing certain things). It has built in test feature that works well for short durations (the journals can get a bit crazy running for extended times). It was solid enough that one of clients would even failover to our site for a week and run production even without a DR event. It was easy to re-protect the VMs back to their site and then fail it back over.

Zerto anyone?

Posted by No-Post2278@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 15 comments

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VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRM) was ok, but we migrated to Zerto because it worked better for our case. I have to say I haven't used SRM in quite a few years, so maybe things have improved. Our biggest pain point was the versions needed to be same across the sites. Since we had multiple sites, it led to weekends of marathon upgrades.

Zerto anyone?

Posted by No-Post2278@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 15 comments

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Used it before, very nice compared to other offerings out there. It just works and RPO can be just seconds. RTO of probably less than an hour depending on how much manipulation your environment might need in DR.

Is it to realistic to find a weekend only job as a sysadmin?

Posted by UsualConcentrate642@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 40 comments

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Not likely and that sounds horrible. You could try to find something flexible and/or schedule your classes accordingly. I often went to classes in the morning and early afternoon then off to work the 2nd shift.

Do you have a dedicated storage admin?

Posted by FunnyMathematician77@reddit | linuxadmin | View on Reddit | 39 comments

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We use to have a storage team, but they have essentially gotten easier to manage. Usually have gui to click or you just schedule with the vendor for the maintenance, so it's not really a full time position anymore.

Intentionally misnaming devices

Posted by No-Wonder-6956@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 219 comments

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Can't recall all the naming conventions I've witnessed over the years, ones named after presidents, authors, birds, transformers, and water elements. It is harder to remember my mail is on mail## and not optimusprime.