It has been claimed that system administration is dead: that may be so, but if you think that the dead are not a problem, you have been watching the wrong kind of movies. System administration may be dead, but it still walks.
The kind of system administration we’d like to be dead is manual system administration: the management of computing systems by people, rather than by programs. Not only is this very expensive but people are not up to the task: they make mistakes and forget things, so inconsistencies accumulate over time, leading to a slow collapse of the system. Long before the final collapse, it becomes impossible to deal with performance and security problems. These problems slowly kill organizations that try to run large systems using traditional approaches...
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