Handbook of Network and System Administration
Bergstra, Jan (University of Amsterdam, Informatics Institute, The Netherlands) / Burgess, Mark (Oslo University College, Faculty of Engineering, Norway)
System administration is about the design, running and maintenance of human-computer systems. Examples of human-computer systems include business enterprises, service institutions and any extensive machinery that is operated by, or interacts with human beings. System administration is often thought of as the technological side of a system: the architecture, construction and optimization of the collaborating parts, but it also occasionally touc...