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Reporting To Executives

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the justify-your-existence dept.

chopsuei3 writes "As a System Administrator, I am charged with providing more insight into the functioning of the system. What types of reports and information do other System Administrators submit to executives and on what frequency? Measurements such as uptime and average page latency are useful, but our site is relatively stable and we see minimal downtime, so I'm looking for other important and useful information I can report up to better illustrate my efforts. Our system is also unique in that about 70% of the traffic we see is from devices and not human browsers. I am a lone System Administrator in a 20-person company which specializes in web-based irrigation management. I also simultaneously perform all IT-related tasks in the office, which may also be important to report up to executives on regular basis."

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  1. Dear Slashdot.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dear Slashdot, How do I do my job? Sincerely, Chop Suey

  2. Oblig... by Stenchwarrior · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What types of reports and information do other System Administrators submit to executives and on what frequency?"

    TPS reports, of course!

    Now bring on the Redundant Mod!

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  3. Provide market data. by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 4, Funny

    Collect the amount of water pumped reported by each sensor as a trace between 9:30 AM and 4PM on the days the market is open. Find the correlation between this trace and the S&P500 index with a two minute time lag. See which sensor has a correlation coefficient more than 0.05. Use that info to come up with a trading strategy to buy and sell the exchange traded fund IVV. Propose a project find the leading indicator sensor for more securities like QQQQ, Diamond, XLF, XLU, XLV, XLP and the stock ANSS. Upper management is mostly made up of idiots who fall for such things. Build an empire under you. Watch the cash flow of the company. Just before it goes bust, put all this experience in a resume and get a job in the ultra high speed trading division of Morgan Stanley.

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  4. Re:Here's an idea... by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'd also suggest maybe mocking up 2 or 3 examples and letting them see.

    Mocking up? You might as well just make it up. Stick a few trekkish terms in there - quasitron throughput and such - and see if anyone bites.

    They won't.

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  5. Re:No questions allowed. by wisty · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yeah. If random people on the internet come up with a stupid answer, you don't have to listen.

  6. Re:Here's an idea... by IICV · · Score: 5, Funny

    Most of it is working, and it has had some nice side benefits (now, anyone can email anyone else anywhere on the planet).

    Finally, e-mail can start making headway against the telegraph!