system administration
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}, {systems
programmer}.
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(1999-05-02)