Sys Admin
Pocket Survival Guide

• Electrical plugs (Pictorial Guide)
  
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• LDAP (ldap book review)
  
• HP-UX and supplement.
  
• AIX and AIX CD catalog
  
• Solaris ( SDS/SVM, Security/JASS, IPMP, OBP, LOM, RSC, IPMI, Jumpstart, T3, A1000, RM6, StorEdge, )
• Linux (Kickstart, XDMCP, Services)
• Windows (DOS CLI, unix centric)
  
• Irix
• Apple Mac (OS/X unix centric)
  
• VNC, X Emulation Running Unix GUI apps in Windows
  
• Unix backup (Native OS commands: tar, cpio, pax, ufsdump, dd, ssh tunneling)
• Generic Unix Commands:: pgp, wget, uuencode...
  
• Unix File System:: Commands, config files, samba, cifs,
• General Unix Sys Admin :: Commands, config files, YP/NIS, NTP, net-snmp, sudo, chroot, ...
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• Sys Admin tools and performance tuning:: SAR, iostat, vmstat, SE Toolkit, tcpdump, snoop, ethereal, nmap, tripwire,
  
• Development in Unix ::
  • Bourne/ksh/sh, csh/tcsh, awk.
  • Perl,
  • Python,
  • PHP,
  • gdb, gcc, java
  • vi (Unix sys admin development, NOT real developer :)
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• Network ( Cisco, Foundry, ExtremeNet, PIX, CheckPoint, Load Balancer, )
• NetApp
  
• EMC (SAN)Clariion
  
• EMC (NAS)Celerra
  
• Veritas :: VxVM, VCS, NetBackup
• Legato Networker
• MySQL
• Select keyboard layout map for Chinese and Spanish/Thai/Dvorak
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• HTML tags quick reference.
• WiKi tags quick reference.
• LSF
• Science File Format/Info
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• 3rd Party and Vendor Docs Cache
  
• TBD .

• Network monitoring tool review: Nagios/NetSaint, BigBrother, What's Up, GFI
• Network Architecture Approaches The "art" part of designing a network.
• NAS vs SAN vs iSCSI
• Stand alone server, blade server, partitionable machines (LPAR, Domain), virtual machines. VMware, MS Virtual Server vs VirtuoZo
• Documentation platform: plain text, HTML/CSS, TeX/LaTeX, FrameMaker, OpenOffice, MS Office, WordPerfect, WiKi.
  Word Assistant and vi Assistant :-)
  

Products Review

• Terminal (Serial Console) Servers
• Enterprise Products (an overview of some High-Availability products for Solaris)

Links

References

1. A Rosetta Stone of Unix OS Languages (as per the author). It is a pretty good translation between the many different Unix OS.
   
2. Static table map of Unix OS commands from unixguide.net.
3. AIX vs Solaris commands mapping
4. Advanced Horizons has pretty good, concise info on AIX, Linux, Windows, Hardware, etc.
5. Online Unix books (Mostly in Russian, some in English)
6. Samba-CIFS
7. Google for bookshelf
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Lighter Readings

1. Unixville Geeks galore :)
2. Folklore on computer and companies (currently only apple).
3. The New Hacker's Dictionary Hilarious read for the insiders. book ISBN 0262680920
   

Tools

1. HTML Validator
2. Synergy Two computers, two monitors, ONE keyboard and mouse, with cut and paste!! synergy.conf
3. crypt generation web form for generating encrypted password
4. ASCII Art Generator, kinda like web-based figlet, pretty cool :) Another version hosted by a friend of mine.
5. cacert.org Free Digital Certificate for secure web servers, etc.
6. Sunfreeware main mirror site hosted by tds.net.
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Books

• Unix System Administration Handbook by Nemeth et al. This is the Bible for Unix Sys Admin. Excellent read and reference. Highly recommended.
• Essential System Administration by Frisch. Another comprehensive Unix Sys Admin Book.
• Tha Awk Programming Language by the original authors. Kinda old, but very concise yet easy to read, so still highly recommended. After reading Ch3, you can do most of what you would need to do with Awk. Unfortunately, its age does not cover new features implemented by gAWK :-(

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About me

I have been hacking computers for 10+ years now. I started liking to fiddle with OS since college days in FIU, and it is still a hobby when I am not hiking and biking or studying for biotech :-) Here is my old resume.

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