About the System Administration Field
SAGE offers a variety of resources for those interested in system administration and welcomes suggestions for additions to the list. Among the current offerings are:
- The System Administrators' Code of Ethics, suitable for framing for your office wall.
- Training and technical sessions at LISA, the Large Installation System Administration Conference. SAGE members receive a discount on technical sessions registration.
- The definitions and job descriptions from the SAGE Short Topics booklet Job
Descriptions for System Administrators, Revised and Expanded Edition, by Tina Darmohray.
- The complete series of SAGE Short Topics in System Administration booklets, to help you in your daily work and to give you a leg up into management. SAGE members receive a free copy of each new booklet, immediate access to the complete booklets online, and discounts on purchase of printed booklets.
- System Administrator
Salary Survey Results (the most recent survey may be available to
SAGE members only).
- SAGE members may join sage-members, a mailing list for peer discussion and advice, and access its archive.
- Information about Local User Groups: Recognized SAGE groups; other groups; and international groups.
- The Sysadmin Toolbox—what every sysadmin should have at hand, and why.
- Two annual awards for outstanding contributions to the field and to SAGE: the Outstanding Achievement Award and the Chuck Yerkes Award.
- Careers
in System Administration, an article by Barbara
Dijker published in the July 2001 issue of Dr.
Dobb's Journal.
- The report on A Day in the Life: DITL was a 1998
survey intended to define a "typical" system administrator's day.
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