On Mon, 1 Jul 2013, Chris Ess wrote:
On 7/1/2013 3:26 PM, Matt Simmons wrote:
3) Lack of codification
Several professions have established a Body of Knowledge(BoK).
Interestingly enough, there IS a System Administration Body of
Knowledge. Geoff Halprin (a member of USENIX and founder of LOPSA)
compiled it circa 1997. Several of the people reading this email already
know this fact, and I would estimate that they are probably 99% of the
system administrators in the world who are aware of it. Personally, I
don't know if it was complete at the time of its compilation. I know
that it has not been maintained by the profession, or added to by any
groups, and I'm unsure as to exactly which group should be the party to
maintain it.
I think Aleksey Tsalolikhin wanted to do something with SA-BOK. See
https://lopsa.org/content/sabok (As an aside, does anyone know of a
mirror for SA-BOK? The links at that URL don't appear to be working.)
If LOPSA shouldn't maintain something like SA-BOK, who would?
We need some way of gathering pointers to existing documents and articles.
I've started a series of articles for ;login (first in the series in the
August issue) to explain how to build and manage Enterprise level logging. I'd
like to make this sort of thing available as widely as possible. The question is
who will do the work to gather the pointers, let alone reviewing things to make
sure they are still relavent (and dealing with the inevitable disagreements that
will come up :-)
David Lang
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