** Reply to message from "Franki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 4 Sep 2001 04:28:07 +0800 > I beg to differ here... > > The people effected by code red are not competent sysadmins,,, > This is not necessarily true. Many of today's sysadmins need to wear many more hats than that of Uber-Geek sitting in a corner over their servers applying patches. Today's SA is more of a manager juggling between scheduling outages to maintain 99.9% or better uptime to meet SLA's. Bouncing servers to apply patches is in many cases out of the question except for a small window of an hour or so per year. While this uptime can be maintained via clustering or L4+ switching, many companies have little interest in spending the capital required to implement such solutions. Training, hardware, and ongoing support costs make implementation in many environments out of the question. The results of an IT organization being driven strictly by the needs of the business results in a force that must work in a reactive mode. That is, once a problem like CodeRed hits, the staff is permitted to deal with it. John LeMay Jr. Senior Enterprise Consultant NJMC, LLC.
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