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- Installing and Using GNU Screen
- Much of today's system administration is done remotely by means of either a console server or a direct ssh connection to the machines themselves. Since these connections run over TCP, an unreliable IP network can cut the sysadmin's connection to a host during the middle of a critical task. Once...
- Tags: System Administrator, GNU, SSH, UNIX, Open Source, Networking, Operating Systems, Software
- White papers
- The perfect System Administrator's toolkit: The Right Tools for the Job?
- A good system admin is like a boy scout: always prepared. Paul Mah puts together a list of items that belongs in every system administrator's survival toolkit. by Paul Mah
- Tags: System Administrator, toolkit
- Image galleries 2008-03-11
- Assemble the perfect System Administrator's toolkit
- The Job Picture this: You've been in IT for the past 15 years. The IT manager of a big firm, you manage a team of 10 IT staff that serves the in-house needs of more than 500 employees, and you know you do a great job at it....
- Tags: System Administrator, Job, Hard Drive, Adapter, Toolkit, USB, Tool, Productivity, Cable, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Paul Mah
- Blog posts 2008-03-11
- SysAdmin (zip)
- RIA-Media SysAdmin simplifies the administration of your network based on Active Directory by providing in a single tool all the necessary features for managing domains, servers, computers, and users. Version 2.0 build 2969 includes unspecified updates.
- Tags: System Administrator, RIA-Media, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-02-19
- Assisted Firewall Policy Repair Using Examples and History
- Using examples and history mapping, a system administrator can easily identify the two or three critical rules in a rule set that lead to a serious firewall error. Detecting these faults greatly reduces the amount of time an administrator must spend in careful examination of the policy and makes it...
- Tags: System Administrator, College Of William & Mary, Firewalls, Network Security, Security, Networking
- White papers 2007-10-17
- Tray Users (zip)
- Tray Bar Unlock Users makes it more simple to unlock users and helps the system administrator when a user is locked out from the Active Directory Domain. It just became easier to unlock a locked out account. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: System Administrator, Microsoft Windows Active Directory, Directory Services, Enterprise Software, Software
- Software downloads 2008-01-16
- Chris Nowell Unix Security Analyzer (exe)
- This tool tests Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and Linux against best practices. Some tests include explanations and background information. The Windows Configuration Security Analyzer comes with a shell script that system administrators can run on their servers to gather data for the Analyzer. Unlike other tools, the script is easy to...
- Tags: System Administrator, Security Audit, Tool, Productivity, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-11-22
- Desktop Lifecycle Management With System Center Essentials 2007
- Properly managing an IT environment requires expertise and often takes significant amounts of time and effort. Systems administrators are responsible for providing their organizations with access to critical applications and services while ensuring that systems perform optimally and remain secure. Unfortunately, keeping pace with the frequency of changes in any...
- Tags: IT Environment, System Administrator, Organization, Desktops, Hardware
- White papers 2007-04-01
- Sentinel NT (zip)
- System administrators can discover all Windows based Workstations, Printers and Ethernet Devices within a given ip range. No Remote client installation is required. Application allows discovering currently logged on user,Hardware, Software, Processes, Services, Printers, and Shared folders for unlimited client Workstations within each domain while providing the ability to ping...
- Tags: System Administrator, Application, Microsoft Windows NT, Client Workstation, Workstations, Printers, Hardware, Peripherals
- Software downloads 2007-10-09
- NetTools
- NetTools is an immense all-in-one network toolbox. A lot of sniffing and scanning network tools are present, but also other multipurpose tools (file, system) that could be used by system administrators. In this way many actions can be done easier and faster by various network and system administrators. It's cutting-edge...
- Tags: Software, System Administrator, Network, Goal, Tool, NetTools, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-10-08
- Request Access (1-fx)
- Sometimes we encounter Firewall - Access denied for the Web site you requested, message while surfing from a corporate network. Unfortunately, firewalls sometimes rate a good valid site as blacklisted site. In that case we use to request our system administrator to whitelist that site. Request Access comes in handy...
- Tags: System Administrator, Microsoft Access, Site, Firewalls, Microsoft Office, Databases, Networking, Office Suites, Software, Enterprise Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2007-09-26
- 7 Things Every System Administrator Should Know About OpenSSH
- OpenSSH provides a powerful and flexible tool for system administrators, but like any powerful tool, without a proper understanding, its potential may be wasted or, worse, it may become a liability. This white paper provides a brief introduction to several techniques for getting the most out of this tool.
- Tags: System Administrator, Global Knowledge Network Inc., Tool, OpenSSH, Productivity
- White papers 2007-09-04
- Inletex Easy Remote Control (ERC) (exe)
- Easy Remote Control (ERC) is one of the best programs for remote administration under Windows that allow you to work remotely on a computer using the regular graphic user interface (GUI). Easy Remote Control is based on a wide experience of many System Administrators and was tested with them before...
- Tags: System Administrator, Easy Remote Control, Remote Administration
- Software downloads 2007-07-30
- SysAdmin Magazine ceases publication
- For those of you who don't know, SysAdmin magazine is (or was) a monthly publication specifically targeted at the Linux/Unix system and network administrators. I have been a subscriber for the past two years and always find something worth reading in each issue; that said, I do find the bulk of...
- Tags: System Administrator, Subscriber, Postcard, Justin Fielding
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- Last-minute SysAdmin Appreciation Day gifts
- The last Friday in July (this year, July 27) is Sysadmin Appreciation Day (SAAD), an unjustly obscure holiday wherein all consumers of techno-goodness are encouraged to recognize and reward the unsung geeks that keep our hi-tech networks up and running. ThinkGeek has a selection of suggested SAAD gifts, but true...
- Tags: System Administrator, Geek, Gift, ThinkGeek, Keyboards, Networking, Hardware, Peripherals, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-25
- Short story: "When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth"
- "When Sysadmins Ruled The Earth", a comedic sci-fi story by Cory Doctorow, has just won the Locus Award for best novelette of 2007, so publisher Baen Books has done precisely what the market demands of a high-quality, highly desired item -- it's giving it away online! (Welcome to wikinomics, net-noobs.)...
- Tags: System Administrator, Earth, Cory Doctorow, Software Upgrade, Enterprise Software, Software, Jay Garmon
- Blog posts 2007-07-05
- A Tutorial on Disk Defragmentation for Windows
- Over the past decade, businesses worldwide have experienced a tremendous expansion of decentralized, distributed, and networked information processing. Much of this expansion is based on enterprise versions of Windows-based operating systems like Windows Server 2003. A processing paradigm where end users have computing power on the desktop, and reliance on...
- Tags: System Administrator, Disk, Raxco Software, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware
- White papers 2006-09-12
- Sudoers (zip)
- Sudoers allows a local administrator to give certain LUAs (Least-Privileged User Account) the ability to run some (or all) applications as system administrator. Unlike Runas or any other similar products, Sudoers does not execute applications in the context of another administrator account. The user (LUA) currently logged-on to the computer...
- Tags: System Administrator, Application, Sudoers
- Software downloads 2006-05-31
- Optimizing Your Server: Testing, Troubleshooting, and Disaster Recovery
- This sample chapter from Upgrading and Repairing Servers covers tools that systems administrators can use to test and maintain optimal server performance. To get the most out of servers, systems administrators need to know how well they are operating, what is "normal" behavior and what to change...
- Tags: System Administrator, Disaster Recovery, Servers, Hardware
- Book chapters 2006-05-24
- Fight spam with SpamAssassin
- This sample chapter from Slamming Spam: A Guide for Systems Administrators offers practical, administrator-focused coverage of SpamAssassin as an anti-spam solution. Written specifically for in-the-trenches system administrators, Slamming Spam: A Guide for Systems Administrators skips over theoretical discussions of spam and how spammers work, instead directly targeting...
- Tags: System Administrator, Anti-spam, SpamAssassin, Addison-Wesley, Spam, Security, Spam And Phishing
- Book chapters 2006-05-15
