Help with advise on Unix ! ! 1

[poolboy]

Hello !
I am a Certified WebSphere Specialist with development/programming experience but with little or no Unix experience.
I need advice on what would be a day to day task of a WebSphere administrator....including moving to production & stuff
..do I have to be proefficient in Unix.( e.g like shell scripting ?). If so, in what area, so I can get up to speed
Thanks a lot !!
poolboy

 

[caffeinerusher]

Well I'm not an admin myself, but I work with them. Our production support admins don't do alot of scripting. Generally they use basic Unix commands, FTP, CHMOD, etc. When the programmers screw something up, the admin doesn't fix it, just recognizes the error, then gets the programmer out of bed!

Hope this helps a little.
--Caffeinerusher

 

[poolboy]

caffeinerusher,

thanks a million ! I have been confused as I'm not intending to be a Unix Admin but a WebSphere Admin handling configuration, scalability, performance, workload-managment and deployment of enterprise application

so do U reckon I should be okay if I know a little bit of scripting..and general Unix commands..
what exactly are the tasks your support admins script for ? (this is the most important information I need ! )

thanks
poolboy

 

[wushutwist]

Generally I would say it is hard to find purely Application Server Admin work. Most places that I have developed J2EE Applications for tend to throw the Application Server Administration onto either the Web Server Administrator or the Systems Administrator. Ideally, a good Application Server Administrator will have some development experience but I think you will find that only the extremely large deployments will require a dedicated Admin. So I would recommend learning some System Administration and touching up on your Web Administration skills. This would definitely make you more marketable to those smaller companies. Just my input, I could be off-base.

 

[poolboy]

thanks a lot wushutwist,

u cleared up a lot of the issues I'm faced

Regards
poolboy