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Notes admins - are you willing to be shown up?
Wed 15 Dec 2010, 10:55 AM
Tweetby Ben Langhinrichs
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What has been said:
937.1. Philip Storry (15/12/2010 16:46)
Admins are just quieter.
And in many cases, Admins are also more restricted (they cannot simply upgrade a server without going through change control and a lot of planning).
We're also often hamstrung by Architecture teams or other "higher authorities" within an organisation.
This leads to a slower, more gradual pace of change. I have a theory which states that developers appear more vocal because they often live closer to the bleeding edge, and they need to ask for help or feel compelled to share hard won experience. Administrators are rarely at that bleeding edge, so are far less visible.
Look at the more vocal admins in the Domino Blogging Ecosphere, and many of them are in consultancies or small companies. Domino Administrator bloggers in big companies? Not so many.
I know I've posted much less since moving from a ~1500 person organisation to a ~60,000 person corporation.
937.2. Keith Brooks (12/15/2010 05:01 PM)
I hadn't thought about it really.
Philip, not sure I agree with you entirely but yes there are fewer admin bloggers at large companies but the ones that do are very good and helpful.
But those of us BPs see much more variety too in one day than many of those in larger companies so we have more to discuss.
937.3. Ben Langhinrichs (12/15/2010 05:19 PM)
I'm just razzing both sides in a blatant attempt to jack up the number of proposals. I want to get people thinking about what could be out there, as we may have all grown too accustomed to the absence of Notes/Domino books. There is nothing like the status quo to convince people that things are the way they are meant to be, not just the way they happen to be.
937.4. Len Berg (12/15/2010 09:14 PM)
Book Proposal:Getting started with Domino Administration.
A succinct group of illustrated chapters covering
basic administration for new Domino admins.
How Domino works:
Overview of each process
Intraserver communication
Communication on different protocols
Configuring and Tuning the Domino Server
Growing The Infrastructure
Clustering and Partitioning
Virtualizing Servers
Incorporating other Technologies
Traveler, BES, Sametime
Troubleshooting
What to do when things are slow
What to do when processes are down
How to collect debug information