A Thousand Words Paint a Picture

The thrill and the threat of enterprise automation.

Ken Hess

Every system administrator wants to automate the tedious and mundane tasks they must perform regularly. I love to automate the creation of HTML reports. I get a thrill out of creating timed scripts that fire off one after the other to perform elaborate tasks, such as moving or copying files, restarting services, downloading updates, performing system cleanup, archiving files, and so on. There’s just something fun about putting things in motion and watching them work without intervention behind the scenes while I research new services, scan performance data, and worry about how much disk space everyone consumes. But there’s a dark side to automation, too. Is it just me, or do we struggle with automation? As you deduced from the paragraph above, I want to automate tasks, but I’m convinced…

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ADMIN Network & Security (Digital) - 1 Issue, September/October 2024

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