system administration

job Activities performed by a system administrator (or

"admin", "sysadmin", "site admin") such as monitoring security

configuration, managing allocation of user names and

passwords, monitoring disk space and other resource use,

performing backups, and setting up new hardware and

software.

system administrators often also help users, though in a large

organisation this may be a separate job.

Compare postmaster, sysop, system management, systemsprogrammer.

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(1999-05-02)