How Can I Be A Sys-Admin On The Road?

Peter Cooper asks: "I'm a server administrator who also has to visit clients, meaning I'm often out of the office. As a 'one man outfit', this means my servers are at risk during this time. I was planning to get a cellphone that can receive e-mail, and a PDA which can connect through the cellphone, so that I can SSH from anywhere in the country, but the amount of phones, PDAs, and connectivity options, are very confusing. Do other admins have recommendations for phones, PDAs, or other systems so I can be an admin on the road? I'm in the UK, but suggestions for elsewhere are also welcomed, as others may find them useful."

Comments

You can go to far...

[MarkusQ]

You can go a long way with this sort of thing...some might say too far.

When I was out to dinner with a group of friends a few years back one of them (who was a sysadmin for a medium sized company) interrrupted herself in mid sentence, pulled out her pager, looked at it, laughed, pulled out her PDA, made a few cryptic graffitesque gestures, said "Ha!", and pulled out her cell phone.

The conversation went something like this:

"Wally, why are you using Sara's computer?"

"Then you should have used one of the other machines in the sales department. You know the graphics people have asked the sales people not to use their machines without asking."

"That's right. And while I've got you on the line, do you happen to recall the company policy about browsing to inapropriate web sites?"

"Well, you know you shouldn't open attachments like that. Especially when you're using someone else's computer."

"Allright then. One last thing Wally: don't fuck with me."

Then she hung up and continued with what she'd been saying.

-- MarkusQ

Re:You can go to far...

[Wolfrider]

--D00d, your friend is teh ROOT! Is she single?? ;-)

Re:You can go to far...

[MarkusQ]

--D00d, your friend is teh ROOT! Is she single?? ;-)

Last I heard she was "complex". It may be possible to cast her to single and then use the normal single operators on her, but everyone I've seen try this has seg faulted with a nasty access/privlege level violation message within a few seconds. Trying sleep() or u_sleep() is especially not recomended.

-- MarkusQ

Re:A decent combination

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I am to lazy to google for the links, but its a pretty spiffy package.

Yeah,

He's one of us, allright!