Network Administrator – Duties and Functions
Friday, January 27th, 2012Many organisations exhaust a three tier help staff solution, with tier one (wait on desk) personnel handling the initial calls, tier 2 (technicians and PC succor analysts) and tier three (network administrators) . Most of those organisations follow a fixed staffing ratio, and being a network administrator is either the top job, or next to top job, within the technical assist department.
Network administrators are responsible for making obvious computer hardware and the network infrastructure itself is maintained properly for an IT organisation. They are deeply eager in the procurement of recent hardware (does it meet existing standardisation requirements? Does it do the job required? ) rolling out unusual software installs, maintaining the disk images for current computer installs (usually by having a standardised OS and application install), making positive that licenses are paid for and up to date for software that need it, maintaining the standards for server installations and applications, and monitoring the performance of the network, checking for security breaches, abominable data management practices and more. (more…)
