Sys Admin
Pocket Survival Guide (PSG)

TOC/Complete page list

• Electrical plugs (Pictorial Guide)
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• CoreOS
• NixOS
• LDAP (ldap book review)
  
• HP-UX and supplement.
  
• AIX and AIX CD catalog
  
• Solaris ( SDS/SVM, Security/JASS, IPMP, OBP, LOM, RSC, IPMI, Jumpstart, T3, A1000, RM6, StorEdge, )
• Linux (Kickstart, XDMCP, Services)
• Linux firewall / PAM
• NixOS
  
• Windows (DOS CLI, unix centric)
  
• Irix
• Apple Mac (OS/X unix centric)
  
• VNC, X Emulation, NoMachine NX. Running Unix GUI apps in Windows
  
• Unix backup (Native OS commands: tar, cpio, pax, ufsdump, dd, ssh tunneling)
• Generic Unix Commands:: wget, pgp, ssh-keygen, uuencode...
  
• Unix File System:: Commands, config files, samba, cifs,
• Lustre::
• General Unix Sys Admin :: Commands, config files, YP/NIS, NTP, net-snmp, sudo, chroot, ...
• CFEngine.
• Puppet
• Ansible
• .
• Factory Default Password.
• Sys Admin tools and performance tuning:: SAR, iostat, vmstat, SE Toolkit, tcpdump, snoop, ethereal, nmap, tripwire,
  
• ipmi (ipmitool).
• bios Boot escape seq. Hyperthreading/Logical Processor. Sub NUMA Cluster.
• Development in Unix :: (Unix sys admin development, NOT real developer :)
  • Dev Overview of diff compilers, .a vs .so libraries.
    
  • DevOps
  • GIS
  • Source control commands:
    
    • git
    • subversion(svn)
    • cvs
    • rcs
    • mercurial hg
    • perforce
  • Rosetta Stone of Unix Scripting (summary differences of bash vs tcsh vs awk vs perl. (source .rtf)
  • Bourne/ksh/sh, csh/tcsh shell command and script.
  • AWK,
  • Perl,
  • Python,
  • PHP,
  • R, CRAN,
  • javascript,
  • gcc
  • gdb
  • java
  • vi
  • SoftEnv, Environment Modules
  • HTML tags quick reference.
  • WiKi tags quick reference.
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• Network ( Cisco ( MDS fibre channel switch ), Foundry, ExtremeNet, CheckPoint, PIX, Load Balancer, )
• InfiniBand
  
• IPv6
  
• Acopia (F5 ARX virtual file server/director)
  
• RFC 007 - MRF
  
• NetApp
  
• EMC (SAN) Clariion
  
• EMC (NAS) Celerra
  
• Isilon
  
• Veritas :: VxVM, VCS, NetBackup
• Legato Networker
• MySQL
• SQLite
• postgres
• DB2
• oracle
• Select keyboard layout map for Chinese and Spanish/Thai/Dvorak
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• HTML tags quick reference.
• WiKi tags quick reference.
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• Batch System/Grid Computing LSF, PBS/Torque, Grid Engine, Slurm.
• Parallel Computing API/Layer MPI, PVM
• Big Data analytics engines Hadoop, Spark, Cassandra, etc.
• Amazon AWS/EC2
• OpenStack
• Docker, Container
• kubernetes, Container Orchestration
• Vagrant (and Virtual Box)
• Container in HPC (Singularity vs Shifter vs Docker)
• WareWulf
• Science File Format/Info
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• 3rd Party and Vendor Docs Cache
  
• TBD .

• Network monitoring tool review: Nagios/NetSaint, BigBrother, What's Up, GFI
• Network Architecture Approaches The "art" part of designing a network.
• NAS vs SAN vs iSCSI
• Stand alone server, blade server, partitionable machines (LPAR, Domain), virtual machines. VMware, MS Virtual Server vs VirtuoZo
• Documentation platform: plain text, HTML/CSS, TeX/LaTeX, FrameMaker, OpenOffice, MS Office, WordPerfect, WiKi.
  Word Assistant and vi Assistant :-)
  

Products Review

• Terminal (Serial Console) Servers
• Enterprise Products (an overview of some High-Availability products for Solaris)

Loose ends

• Select keyboard layout map for Chinese and Spanish/Thai/Dvorak

Links

References

1. A Rosetta Stone of Unix OS Languages (as per the author). It is a pretty good translation between the many different Unix OS.
   
2. A Rosetta Stone of Unix Shell Scripts
   
3. Static table map of Unix OS commands from unixguide.net.
4. AIX vs Solaris commands mapping
5. Advanced Horizons has pretty good, concise info on AIX, Linux, Windows, Hardware, etc.
6. Online Unix books (Mostly in Russian, some in English)
7. Samba-CIFS
8. Google for bookshelf
9. .

Lighter Readings

1. Funny 404
It is not only for web developers ^_^
2. Rusted Realty Puns intended...
3. Unixville Geeks galore :)
4. Folklore on computer and companies (currently only apple from the old days).
5. The New Hacker's Dictionary Hilarious read for the insiders. book ISBN 0262680920
   

Tools

1. HTML Validator
2. Synergy Two computers, two monitors, ONE keyboard and mouse, with cut and paste!! synergy.conf
3. crypt generation web form for generating encrypted password
4. ASCII Art Generator, kinda like web-based figlet, pretty cool :) Another version hosted by a friend of mine.
5. cacert.org Free Digital Certificate for secure web servers, etc.
6. Sunfreeware main mirror site hosted by tds.net.
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Books

• Unix System Administration Handbook by Nemeth et al. This is the Bible for Unix Sys Admin. Excellent read and reference. Highly recommended.
• Essential System Administration by Frisch. Another comprehensive Unix Sys Admin Book.
• The Awk Programming Language by the original authors. Kinda old, but very concise yet easy to read, so still highly recommended. After reading Ch3, you can do most of what you would need to do with Awk. Unfortunately, its age does not cover new features implemented by gAWK :-(

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About me

I have been "hacking" computers for 10+ years now. I started liking to fiddle with OS since college days in FIU, and it is still a hobby when I am not hiking and biking or studying for biotech :-)

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