Tuesday 28 June 2016

Daily activities of a system administrator

Administrator To-Do List

Daily routine

Windows administrator Roles & Responsibilities


§  Windows administrator
§  Deploying windows servers and configuring using Hyper V
§  Installation and configuration windows OS
§  Windows server migration and configuration
§  Apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
§  Installing and configuring  Software or hardware
§  Monitoring the server using third party tool or inbuilt tool
§  Verify that peripherals are working properly
§  Quickly arrange repair for hardware in occasion of hardware failure
§  Monitor system performance
§  Perform periodic performance reporting and reporting the same
§  Analyzing system logs and identifying potential issues with computer systems.
§  Performing backups using DPM server
§  Perform Security Health Check of Windows servers and other compliance using system center
§  Review event and security logs and take corrective actions for all servers
§  Monitoring All Virtual server health, HDD, RAM and performance on weekly basis
§  Installing, Configuring and Managing AD / DHCP / DNS Services.
§  Creating and managing users and Ou on Active directory
§  Adding, removing, or updating  user account information, resetting passwords, etc.
§  Performing AD Replication monitoring and regular health checks on all Domain controller
§  Backups and restores for all servers
§  Group Policy Object (GPO) administration, troubleshooting, and management
§  Adding and removing machines in required domain
§  Installation and configuration Terminal servers
§  Maintaining Network Printer and scanner
§  Managing the Router and managed switch
§  Checking on daily or weekly basis RAID Configurations and status
§  Installing and managing Exchange server
§  Creating new mailbox and assigning policy and features
§  Backup Server EPMS-DS2 Installation and configuration including Storage
§  Backup Server EPMS-DS2 Installation and configuration including Storage
§  Regularly Monitoring and capturing system log files.
§  Regularly Monitoring and capturing data of server CPU , memory usage
§  Regularly monitoring Filesystems space.
§  Regularly monitoring capturing Network usage.
§  Writing automated scripts to handle routine user and sysadmin tasks.
§  Users Management and Support
§  Taking backup of important filesystems.
§  Maintaining documentation for system parameters and disk layout.
§  updating with new technologies
§  Educating and training users and subordinates if applicable.
§  Daily check on the backups
§  Daily Check on Server status, mostly looking at servers with alerts/warnings (usually via a monitoring tool)
§  Daily/Weekly check on open calls (breached SLAs, most popular call category etc)
§  Daily check on server room equipment such as Air con units, extractor fans, removing trailing cables, humidity controllers etc)
§  Weekly check on members of important AD groups such as Domain Admins, Enterprise admins, Scheme admins etc
§  Daily check of AV server for alerts
§  Daily check on server room access for the previous day (if you have a system that records entries)

 

Review physical hardware status

§  Exhaust Fan Motor
§  HVAC
§  Network equipment indicator lights
§  Server indicator lights
§  UPS indicator lights
§  Workstation lights

Review logs

§  Anti-virus logs
§  Applications logs
§  Backup logs
§  Firewall logs
§  Monitoring logs
§  Server event logs
§  Spam filter logs
§  Web logs

Review queues

§  Email queues

Monitor information

§  Monitoring software:
§  SpiceWorks
§  Ping
§  Specific port availability
§  Windows services
§  Network status
§  News feeds
§  RBL SPAM listings
§  Security sites
§  User groups
§  Vendor sites

Nightly and/or early-morning routine

Automated

§  Anti-virus updates
§  Backups
§  Rebooting
§  Security patching

Manual

§  Anti-virus updates (in case of an out-of-band update)
§  Change backup tapes
§  Cleanup users mailboxes
§  Rebooting
§  Repairing
§  Security patching
§  Software updates
§  Spam quarantine

Monthly and/or ad-hoc routine

§  Account and AD change management
§  Clean backup server tape drive
§  Create/update drivers disks
§  Create/update emergency recovery disks
§  Create/update network installation points
§  Create/update scripts for task automation
§  Create/update slipstream installations
§  Databases check cleanup and update
§  Directory shares add, delete, archive or migrate
§  Directory structure add, delete, archive or migrate
§  Disaster recovery testing and change management
§  Distribution groups add, delete, archive or migrate
§  Documentation
§  Drive defragmentation
§  Intrusion Detection System check
§  Firewall backup
§  Firewall installation or update
§  Free space check
§  Laptop Updates
§  Mailbox add, delete, archive or migrate
§  Name resolution change management (DNS, WINS)
§  Network folders archiving
§  Off-site archiving and storage (Future)
§  Public folders change management
§  Security change, installation or update
§  Security and penetration testing
§  Server load testing
§  Server sizing check
§  Software installation or update
§  Spam filter installation or update
§  Testing various systems
§  Troubleshooting various systems

Hope this will help...

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