Difference between "operator" and "system administrator"?
Sill D E
de5 at de5.ctd.ornl.gov
Sat Oct 27 02:02:26 AEST 1990
In article <680 at dynasys.UUCP>, jessea at dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher) writes:
>The question was: What
>is the difference between a system administrator and an operator?
A system administrator knows what he's doing? Oh, you mean it's not a
joke? :-)
Seriously, the system administrator is the one that tells the operator
what to do and when to do it. In a short seminar I gave recently on
workstation system administration, I defined system administration as:
"The set of scheduled, unplanned, one-time, and periodic tasks
that must be performed in order to provide a secure, reliable,
and available computing environment for a group of users."
This definition includes everything from procurement of hardware,
software, and maintenance, to performing backups, installing and
configuring, and troubleshooting.
The operator is a tool of the system administrator--if he's lucky
enough to have one. Operators are generally responsible for
day-to-day operations such as backups/restores, adding/removing users,
etc.
In short, the system administrator is the "brains" and the operator
is the "braun".
--
Dave Sill (de5 at ornl.gov)
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
Workstation Support
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