Resumen de System administration of commandand control systems
In the military command and control (C2) environment there are many missions that come together to allow a commander to fight, but it is the system administration mission that is the least understood. My day-to-day system administration tasks are typical of those in any systems support shop, but they have a unique flavor that forces me to think creatively about sysadmin problems. The C2 sysadmin focuses on maintaining totally reliable and robust systems; a system crash on one side of the world can mean death on the battlefield on the other side of the world. Yet a C2 system is highly conservative, and the C2 syadmin is not allowed access to many traditional tools such as compilers, debuggers, or network sniffers. In this article I explain how the limited environment and mission focus changes the way I and my colleagues approach the job of system administration.
