8 Reasons Why SysAdmins Deserve Your Appreciation

July 26th, 2013, CFEngine celebrates the 14th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day 8 REASONS WHY SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS DESERVE YOUR APPRECIATION We have interviewed 100's of SysAdmins in our community and want to share some fun facts we have discovered which show why they deserve our appreciation APPRECIATE THEM FOR ALL THAT THEY DO IN YOUR ORGANIZATION: PROVISION, CONFIGURE and MAINTAIN your computer systems DESIGN and INSTALL your networks DEPLOY new software applications to your web servers ENSURE that your email, calendar and all other business apps work Project MANAGEMENT for system related projects MONITOR performance of your networks PROCURE new hardware and software MAINTAIN disk images for new installs CHECK for security breaches and poor data management SUPERVISE and TRAIN others in the organization ENSURE SECURITY for internet connectivity OUR SYSADMINS ARE WICKED SMART! MORE THAN IN ADDITION AND ABOUT 38% 24% 13% HAVE COLLEGE/ UNIVERSITY DEGREES HAVE COMPLETED GRAD SCHOOL HAVE GONE ON TO POST GRADUATE STUDIES (so in aggregate, 75% are college educated or better) AND THEY WORK REALLY HARD (on average 49.5 hours per week) THEY ARE NOT SNOBS. When it comes to favorite drinks, this is a COFFEE (32%) WATER (22%) and SODA (10%) crowd. And as you might expect their off-duty drink is BEER which came in 4TH AT 18%. (32%) (22%) (10%) (18%) 4X more CFEngine SysAdmins prefer CUFFEE over tea. 4X more CFEngine SysAdmins prefer BEER over wine. COMMODORE VIC-20, SPECTRUM, ATARI, ACOM, COMMODORE 32, AMSTAD OBIC TIMES SINCLAIR ZY-8A AMBRA BOURROUGHS, CYRIX, OLINTHEY ARE THE ORIGINAL GEEKS! RADIO SHACK TI-99, PACK Nearly 50% of all CFEngine SysAdminsRE 124. ARC, SHARP AVEIS, DANTEL, THOMSON, MATTEL AQ XERlearned to hack on computers like Alto,ACOM, AM Amiga, Atari, Commodore, PDP, AMBRA, BOUP OLIVE RE 32, Sinclair and TRS. COMMODORE 64, OSBORN TI-99, PACKAROBELL, PHILLIPS, PRAVETS, QANTEL, T AQUARIUS, KC-87, TANDY 1000 COMODORE 124 XEROX, COMMODORE VIC-20, SPEC ATARI, ACOM AMSTAD, ORIC, TIMES-SINCLAIR Z OLIVETTI, TRS-80 GENNIE COMMODOR TI-99, PAC MES- AQUARTRS-80, GEN DARP ЛЕ32 BRA, B 12 ACO BO SBORN TEL, T RE ATAD ZX-80 HA, 64, OSB ETS, QANTEL PC OTHER TANA 43% AMARIUS OLX, CO TI-D, ORIC, TMES-S AQUA TRS-80, GEN XEROX, ORELL, P 32, AMSTAD, CYRIX, OLIVETTI, TRS-80 GENNIE SHACK, TI-99, PACKARD APPLE/MAC 48% SHARP MODORE QUGHS RADIO ON. MATTEL AQUARIUS, KC-8700% 1000, COMMODORE 124 SHARP, COMMODORE VIC- TRUM, ATARI, ACOM, COMM 32, AMSTAD, ORIC, TIMES-SINCLAIR ZX-80, AMBRA, BOUP BASH, ZSH, PERL PYTHON, OCAML, HASKELL, CO0, ALGOL SNOBOL, APL, SH, TCTHESE GUYS ARE LINGUISTS. 2. SCALA JAVA, C, COR AT LEAST THEY KNOW AND USE QUITE A NUMBER OF LANGUAGES SHELL, SP PROLO CEXPECT BASH 50% KNOW 17% KNOW 32% KNOW BOL SED, AWK SOL DAS GOOGE GO Over ASSEMBLER JAVASCRIPT, SCAL KSH BASIO APL, APL,H, TC3-5 ACS LP FO 6-8 JAVAC programming SED PACL 9 OR MOREALA, HELL WAS RIPT programming languages programming languages languages GOOGLE GU, CFENGINE, TCL, EXPECT, C7C++, PASCAL, KSH, BASIC, APL AWS, BASH, CFENGINE, AWK, EMACS, GIT, GREP, LSOF, SSH, NAGIOS, PYTHON PERL TCPOUMP TOP. VI/VIM GOOGLE. STRACE SHELL SCRE SYSADMINS HAVE TOOLS FOR EVERYTHING! KSH, MUNIN TCA TSTAT, OSSEC, PDSH, PS, RANCID, BRD S Appreciate them for making sense out of tools with names like cacti,RIK dtrace, emacs, ganglia, git, logstash, nagios, putty, rsync, snort, sudo, tmux, vagrant, vim and wireshark. AWK, EMA Without all these tools your company would grind to a halt.PDUMP, RACE SH The most popular tools used by CFEngine SysAdmins are: ТИКА NGINE TOP, VI/VIM, GOOGLE CACTI, CAT, "AT,CRD NETSTAT, OSSEC PDSH TAIL, TAR, ZABBIX, ZS SSH, NAGIOS cacti cat ctengine SHARK, ATOP uKI, NETCAT, MIT SNORT, SUDO, HARK, XCAT GREP LSOF chrome LE. STRACE, cron Cssh curl dd df dig dmesg dstat OT. ICINGA. BRD SAR amazon awķ bash bourne bin SHELL SCR COobbler KATE, KSH. dtrace emacs expect fai ganglia git PS. RANCID. RRD, SAR, S graphite grep co htop icinga ifconfig iftop SS, TSHARK, prout iptables iptraf Kickstartksh Idap AWK, EMAC logstash Isof mediawiki mtr munin gzip TWIKI, WEGE iostatiotop CFENGINE, TCPDUMP nagios netcat netstat ATOP TOP, VI/VIN CACTI, CAT, munki IKI, NETCAT, NORT, SUDO NETSTAT OS T map nslookup opanidap opennms openssh perl powershell puttyARK, XCAT, TAIL, TAR. ZABBIX, ZSH openvas OSsec python redmine rrd rsync sarSOF, SSH. NAGIOS, PYT Screen screwdriver sed shell ACE, SHELL SCREEN, WI snort splunk squid SSh strace sudo INGA, KATE, KSH, MUNIN svn sysinternals syslog sysstat tail tar ANCID, RAD, SAR, SED, S tcpdump WEGET, WIR leplow telnet torm tmu 1oad top ARK, TWIKI, term EMACS, GIT. tracepath traceroute vagrant vi AWK, vmstat vmware wireshark xcat VIM, GOOGLI FAI, GNU PL MP. TOP, VI/ CACTI, CAT, IT, NETSTAT, zabbix zenoss zsh OSSEC, POSH, PS, RANCID, RRD, SAR, SED, SMIT, SNORT, SUDO, TAIL TAR TILDA TRUSS TSHARK TWIKL WEGET WIRESHARK YCAT ZARRUY PLEASE ALSO APPRECIATE THEM FOR THINGS THEY DON'T DO: THEY DON'T make your surfing habits public THEY DON'T delete the gigs of music on your company drive THEY DON'T repeat the dumb questions you ask sometimes THEY DON'T give you a hard time when they have to recover the data you accidently deleted AND FINALLY CFENGINE SYSADMINS REALLY ARE A SPECIAL BREED: THEY HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE (roughly 4 years more than average SysAdmins) MANAGE MORE SERVERS 41% of CFEngine SysAdmins manage between 100-2500 servers each (the industry average is 50-100) SO PLEASE GIVE THEM A LITTLE EXTRA APPRECIATION TODAY! Produced by: CFEngine www.cfengine.com