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Server - Admin L1 Roles

This document outlines the responsibilities of a system and/or server administrator. Key duties include performing regular hardware and software checks, ensuring successful backups, collaborating with networking on new installations, installing and configuring commercial products, and managing systems. Additionally, the administrator must ensure proper documentation through logs of server room access, server changes, policy changes, and security controls, as well as budgeting and renewal of support contracts and hardware.

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Server - Admin L1 Roles

This document outlines the responsibilities of a system and/or server administrator. Key duties include performing regular hardware and software checks, ensuring successful backups, collaborating with networking on new installations, installing and configuring commercial products, and managing systems. Additionally, the administrator must ensure proper documentation through logs of server room access, server changes, policy changes, and security controls, as well as budgeting and renewal of support contracts and hardware.

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System and/or server administrator

1. Perform regular physical checks (eyeball blinking and/or amber lights)


2. Perform regular hardware health log checks (HP ilo or Dell iDRAC for example)
3. Perform Windows Server Log checks (event logs, security logs)
4. Perform regular Windows updates (this can be a very wrong answer depending on
application)
5. Perform backup tasks or ensure backups runs successfully.
6. work with print servers, file permissions, and Active Directory,
7. Collaborate with networking department and install necessary hardware to
systems.
8. Install and configure various commercial products on window operating
systems
9. Manage and monitor system plans and supervise all activities for plan and
unplanned systems.

Then there is the "paper-work" part....

1. Ensure proper logs of Server room entry


2. Ensure proper logs of server access (server rack, KVM etc)
3. Ensure proper Policy or GPO change logs (who changed what etc)
4. Ensure proper security logs (eg remote access controls, VPN controls)
5. Budgeting or at least informing IT manager the need to renew support contracts or
replace hardware (when support cannot be further extended)

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