Performing Routine Chores


Much of the network manager's job is routine stuff-the equivalent of vacuuming, dusting, and mopping, or changing your car's oil and rotating the tires.

These tasks are boring, but they have to be done:

  • Create backups: The network manager must ensure that the network is properly backed up. If something goes wrong and the network isn't backed up, guess who gets the blame? On the other hand, if disaster strikes yet you're able to recover everything from yesterday's backup with only a small amount of work lost, who gets the pat on the back, the fat bonus, and the vacation in the Bahamas? Chapter 21 describes the options for network backups. Read it soon.

  • Provide security: Another major task for a network administrator is sheltering the network from the evils of the outside world. These evils come in many forms, including hackers trying to break into your network and virus programs arriving through e-mail. Chapter 22 describes this task in more detail.

  • Cleanup: Users think that the network server is like the attic: They want to throw files up there and leave them forever. No matter how much disk storage your network has, your users will fill it up sooner than you think, so the network manager gets the fun job of cleaning up the attic once in a while. The best advice I can offer is to continually complain about how messy it is up there and warn your users that spring cleaning is on the to-do list.




Networking For Dummies
Networking For Dummies
ISBN: 0470534052
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 254
Authors: Doug Lowe

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