Daily Check List for system administrator

Daily Check List for system administrator


1. Check your email and calendar
   - reply your mail right away
   - mark for important meetings


2. Check your ticket queue
   - find the urgency of the ticket.
   - priorotise the task


3. Make a list of servers with problems. Check log /var/adm/messages
    # tail -2000 /var/log/messages


4. Also check the following,


 a. Disk and Filesystem utilization issue
    # df -h
    # cd /mountpoint; du -sh *
    # iostat -En
    # iostat -Exn
    # zpool status
    # zfs list


 b. CPU utilization
    # w
    # prstat
    # vmstat
    # sar -u


 c. Memory utilization
    # prstat
    # vmstat
    # swap -s; swap -l
    # top -> if you have one installed. [check under /usr/sfw/bin]


 d. Network Statistics
    # netstat -rn
    # netstat -an
    # netstat -in
    # netstat -m




5. Once you are familar with the manual process, write all steps into a file and develop a script.
   - if your place allows emailing, put it on cron and send it through email
   - or use monitoring tools to check the status of your system.