Let’s get something straight right away. I’m your sysadmin. We are not friends. This is not hostility. It’s just clarity. In most jobs people expect warmth, camaraderie, the occasional lunch conversation about weekend plans. In systems administration, the relationship is a little different. My job is not to be socially available. My job is to make sure the systems keep
Tag: IT operations
How to use PowerShell to find the living machines and the listening services, and then document the carnage You run a network. People lie about what is online. Firewalls pretend to be polite. Your job is to stop believing statements and start believing signals. Ping sweeps and port scans do what polite questions will not: they expose truth. Do this
The Network That Never Sleeps Networks don’t take breaks. They hum through nights, holidays, and your supposed day off. Every ping, packet, and login request demands precision and continuity. For those of us in IT, it’s not glamour, it’s survival. That’s where automation steps in. Not to replace you, but to give you back the hours you’ve been surrendering to