LAN Administration

LAN administrators are faced with many different challenges ranging from troubleshooting individual desktop problems to managing backups for an entire company's network. Every organization's LAN Administrator has slightly different responsibilities. Most companies demand LAN administrators who are skilled problems solvers and posses the people skills to properly support end users. InfoManage provides this, and will always use best practices to assume administrative responsibilities for any organization.

LAN administrators usually are faced with performing the widest variety of administrative tasks. The following are some duties that our LAN Administrators usually perform for most businesses.

• Backup/Recovery Implementation
• Capacity planning for servers in a data center (growth plan)
• Confer and coordinate with vendor technical support
• Configure network services
• Configure peripheral devices
• Coordinate hardware replacements and scheduled downtime for maintenance
• File System Management
  • Create, remove files and directories
  • Modify directory and file permissions
  • Modify directory and file ownership
• Install/configure OS on new servers
• Install/manage application (web servers, mail servers, CRM)
• Manage DNS
• Manage printers
• Manage scheduled reboots
• Manage virus scanning and updates
• Perform restores from tape of lost data
• Port applications from one machine to another
• OS Management – Apply maintenance patches and service packs
• Troubleshoot hardware problems
• Robust Monitoring
• User Account and Security Management

Advanced LAN Administrators who are responsible for corporate infrastructures are usually responsible for a more complex set of administrative duties. The following are some LAN services that we usually provide to mid sized and large organizations.

• Business Continuity
• Capacity Planning
• Clustering/Replication administration
• Coordinate hardware purchase
• Development support
• Disaster recovery analysis and implementation
• Domain Administration
• Growth history
• Hardware configuration and installation
• OS installations/Upgrades
• Performance tuning analysis and implementation
• Review hardware requirements
• Support for Novell, Windows NT/2000/2003 servers