A System Administrator Primary Responsibilities Are?

Being a system administrator you have all responsibilities to maintain your systems. A system admin is a person having good knowledge about operating systems, networking and applications. Also he must have some primary knowledge about system hardware and software. The responsibilities also varies based on location, organization and infrastructure.

Primary Responsibilities of A System Administrator

Being a Linux/Windows/Cloud Administrator your primary responsibilities are:

1. User account management.
   • Creating new users and groups.
   • Configure security policies.
   • Changing user passwords at regular intervals.
   • Analyze user security pocily on regular time interval.
2. Data backup and recovery.
   • A good system admin always has a data backup policy with him and also has a strong recovery policy.
     Check day to day your backups are working properly.
3. Keep the system up-to-date
   • Always keep your system up-to-date with new packages and patches.
   • The latest packages have new features.
   • Patches are mostly released for security updates in the current package.
4. Installing and configuring new hardware/software basis on requirements
5. Maintaining security on system. Also perform security testing time to time.
6. Monitoring system performance.
7. Keeping the network up and running.
8. Analyzing system logs and identifying issues with computer systems.
9. Introducing and integrating new technologies into existing environments