sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash COSE Sysadm Survey for Sun Customers SunFLASH Vol 61 #8 January 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 61.08 COSE Sysadm Survey for Sun Customers This is a survey from one of SunSoft's COSE representative. If you are a System Administrator or are concerned with the evolution of COSE, please revied the survey and return it to kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM. Please Please Please DO NOT send your compeleted survey to any address other than kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM. DO NOT respond to the poster of this SunFlash article or to the whole mailing list or your local newsgroup (if you read SunFlash in a local newsgroup. -johnj (327 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send Resposes to kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM From: Ken Jones < kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM> My name is Ken Jones and I am representing SunSoft in the COSE (Common Open Software Environment) Core facilities data gathering subgroup along with members from HP, IBM and SCO. Our goal is to gather information about current system resource usage along with "wish lists" from end user system administrators. This data will be used to help define a standard set of interfaces for system commands and C style interfaces within the scope of system administration. We are asking system administrators to participate in the data gathering phase of our work by filling out the included survey. This is an opportunity for end users to have a voice in the systems standards/interfaces which will result. If you have contacts through which this survey can reach system administrators please help by forwarding this. I would like to give as many system administrators as possible the opportunity to participate. The completed survey should be returned to kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM Thanks for your help, Ken Jones 7150 Campus Drive, Suite 200 Colorado Springs, CO 80920 work 719 528 - 4608 FAX 719 548 - 1009 Send Resposes to kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR SURVEY FOR COSE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT Company ________________________ Contact ________________________ Phone ___________________ Address ________________________ email ___________________ Please return to kenjones@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM 1) How many of the following types of Unix systems do you administer? HP: ___ PC's / Desktop ___ Workstations ___ Servers / Mainframes IBM: ___ PC's / Desktop ___ Workstations ___ Servers Mainframes SCO: ___ PC's / Desktop ___ Workstations ___ Servers / Mainframes SUN: ___ PC's / Desktop ___ Workstations ___ Servers / Mainframes Other: _____________ ___ PC's / Desktop ___ Workstations ___ Servers / Mainframes 2) How are those systems interconnected (e.g. ethernet)? 3) What type of business are the computers you support used for? 4) What third party system management applications do you use (e.g. CA-UniCenter)? 5) For each applicable area of system administration answer the following questions: ACCOUNTING: Identify the utilization of system resources. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of your time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): BACKUP/RESTORE: Backup, restore and manage the data contained within a system. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): INTERNATIONALIZATION: Establish system default language and locale information. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): MAIL: Control mail processing and routing. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): NETWORK: Setup and manage network connections. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): PRINT: Define and manage print subsystems ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT: Local and distributed software installation, inventory control and software level controls. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): STARTUP/SHUTDOWN: Control various aspects of the startup and shutdown behavior of the system. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): STORAGE: Control both physical and logical (e.g. filesystem) aspects of disk systems. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): DEVICE: Control the devices associated with the system. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): DIAGNOSTICS: Provide hardware diagnosis, and software defect isolation (such as trace/dump) as well as error event logging ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): PERFORMANCE: Performance monitoring and analysis tools. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): SECURITY: Provide information about inappropriate usage of the system and provide allocation of roles within the system. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): PROCESS: Manage process creation, deletion, and resource utilization. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): USERS: Establish user and group identities and control user access to the system. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): NAME SERVICE: Manage name service additions, deletions, changes ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): HOST: Manage the requirements for setting up a host. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): KERNEL CONFIGURATION: Manage the configuration and tuning of kernel parameters. ___ Relative importance on a 0-10 scale ___ Percentage of time spent within this area. Primary tasks within this area: List deficiencies within this area in order of significance: List functionality which would make your job easier (wish list): OTHER: _____________ ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 60.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. 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