sysadmin

sysadmin

A portmanteau of "system administrator," referring to someone who is responsible for maintaining and operating a computer system or network at a hardware or software level. We'll need to ask the sysadmins to check the servers after the power surge. The sysadmin is currently installing some new security updates to address the recent breaches by hackers.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • sysop
  • go live
  • bare metal
  • the Fed
  • wetware
  • a whole lot more
  • ahead of the pack
  • all for naught
  • (all) for naught
  • blue screen of death
References in periodicals archive
To commemorate SysAdmin Day, ManageEngine has developed a micro site that offers several avenues for acknowledging and celebrating the efforts of sysadmins.
Brace yourself sysadmins, you're going to have a lot of work on your hands.
Docker is lightweight virtualization technology, an open platform for developers, and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications, whether on laptops, data center VMs (Virtual Machines), or the cloud [14,15].
(39.) John Leyden, "FBI Sends Memo to US.gov Sysadmins: You've Been Hacked.For the Past Year," The Register, 2013, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/18/anon_us_ gov_hack_warning/.
It is up to the sysadmins to assign and control the levels of access.
Kitematic aligns with Docker's strategy around open source acquisitions, which is to identify those who have exhibited leadership in the ecosystem and that share a vision of expanding critical tooling for developers and sysadmins.
The crystal-clear precision of the technical briefings and the scale of complexity they revealed competed for effect with Julian Assange's comedic connectivity problems during his rallying call via Skype for technocratic insurrection on the part of the world's sysadmins. But when it came to framing the historical moment and its crushing weight, no keynote could touch the sides of Quinn Norton and Eleanor Saitta's "No Neutral Ground in a Burning World." Their proclamation issued a historical imperative, a call that ensured everyone was complicit and everyone was implicated:
But web developers, web server and DNS server administrators, IT security professionals, sysadmins and even end users must understand the potential threats.
These new capabilities enable sysadmins to inspect IGMP (Internet Group Management Protocol) data to list multicast router ports, multicast groups with active subscribers and their associated interfaces, all of which are important to many modern networking scenarios, including streaming media.
And "When Sysadmins Ruled the World" imagines the consequences of a co-ordinated attack by infoweapons and bioagents.
One healthcare organisation recently advised Nemertes that roughly 50% of the devices on its IP network are medical monitoring devices -- which means that, for example, an on-call physician can remotely log into a system and review a patient's health (similar to the way that today's sysadmins can check on the health of a virtualserver).
GoGrid enables sysadmins, developers, and IT professionals to create, deploy, and control cloud environments and complex virtual and physical server networks with full administrative control.
with a final reference segment focusing especially on JRuby for sysadmins. A wealth of examples and sample code round out this absolute "must-have" for any programmer with an interest in JRuby.
In "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth," the Internet--and humankind--try to survive a biowarfare attack.
The Treo 300 also gives you a real TCP/IP Internet connection so you can run applications like AOL's Instant Messenger client for PalmOS, Qualcomm Eudora for PalmOS, ptelnet, and Top Gun SSH (for you sysadmins out there), along with many others.