system administration


system administration

(job)Activities performed by a system administrator (or"admin", "sysadmin", "site admin") such as monitoring securityconfiguration, managing allocation of user names andpasswords, monitoring disk space and other resource use,performing backups, and setting up new hardware andsoftware.

system administrators often also help users, though in a largeorganisation this may be a separate job.

Compare postmaster, sysop, system management, systems programmer.