Re: [SAGE] Servers per SysAdmin

[Pat Lynch <lynch@bsdunix.net>]

As we found out at OSDN, 2 sysadmins can handle 200 servers but you'll run
them ragged doing so, I would say, honestly 50 per sysadmin, 30 if theres
an on-call schedule.

I know, I ended up in the hospital from the stress.

-Trish

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On Mon, 8 Oct 2001, Barnette, Steve L wrote:

> I am in a staffing discussion on number of SysAdmins needed for our servers.
> The suits are quoting some Gardner Group article stating one SysAdmin per
> hundred servers.  That sounds high to me, I was wondering what all of you
> think?
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> Steve Barnette
> Sr. Systems Engineer
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