On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 06:14 -0400, Jerry wrote:
I agree. If the system is constructed correctly it certainly does not need that sort of attention. There is software available that can monitor the system to a high degree of satisfaction. However, Noel, I firmly believe that there are OPs (SAs ?) that greatly exaggerate the degree of difficulty of their job. I guess we all like to feel we are indispensable.
I'm certain that's the case, anything setup correctly, you should be able to walk away and almost forget about it, the only thing to do is modify anti spam rules to catch variants of new spam, all of 1 mins work, tops, the rest of the time is helping manage the rest of the network :)
Mail Administration is not complicated, all too many people like to over complicate their setups and only cause themselves work.
I've had more than one CEO in the past say to me that they like to see key NOC staff doing nothing, because it says to them the network is working perfectly.
All too many do not automate things or write scripts/cron tasks, complicate their network and tinker, because as you said, they need to feel indispensable, if only their managers had a clue.
