Yeah...this kind of question might stir up more sides if it were posed to a list that wasn't LOPSA.... Since, isn't one of the reasons we belong to LOPSA is that we want this to happen.
Being the professional that I've been and try to still be...I would like to see some kind of structure that says just who can work as a system administrator. Its scary working in edu, the people that get to play system administrator...considering that here we work with systems and data more sensitive than I had to deal with when I was working on the outside (first for a defense contractor and second for commercial software company). There's HIPPA data in our DC, but the response is its noisy in the DC and the people that need to know couldn't hear you. Though we are building an isolated cluster for PCI-DSS....sort of...there's only two SANs (prod and not, where 'not' includes the netbackup disk staging pools)....and no data classification within, yet. FERPA is this annoying thing that we know we're violating, but nobody cares as long as nobody complains (and the one guy that does...they keep asking when's he going to retire....they threw away his mainframe, but being one of the few people with administrative tenure...they couldn't make him leave with it). There's other compliance issues, but since only PCI-DSS is the one that's threatening to hurt at the moment, its the one with the most attention. Even though most of the entities that care, have outsourced (so its largely a problem for the IT security and compliance group to deal with.) The other day...a developer asked, "what's a good crash course in system administration book?" A few months ago, the director of his unit asked if we would take him on as an SA intern. He's available immediately and indefinitely.... is he so highly regarded in his own department that he's available to us this way? Yes, we have openings...but its so hard to find good people that'll work for what we'll pay. Though they've complained that its my fault that I accepted such a low pay when I started, that it hard to find people like me that'll work for less than what I'm getting. Well, he's being reassigned to their application system administration group....only because AA group would sound worse than ASA group.... though for some reason they get full sudo on their boxes, though the current ones...know they have it, but don't seem to know how to use it (even after we tell them how they could do some of the things themselves with it.) Though it worries me that someday they'll have somebody that doesn't know enough to not try breaking things.... Though I wonder if we'll get to the day where we won't need a license to drive anymore, because the car will do everything on its own.... I want that. On 11/12/2011 1:21 PM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: >> From: [email protected] [mailto:discuss- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Kern >> >> Please note that I am not talking about certification. I am talking about >> creating a License to Practice. > If something like this comes about, it doesn't bother me, really. The only > professions that don't require a license to practice are ones in which > nothing amazingly valuable is at stake, or it's just so new or so small that > nobody's been able to create such regulations yet. > > You have to be licensed (or certified) to practice law, give financial > advice, build a house, cut down a tree, practice medicine, drive a taxi. > > Obviously, flying _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
