A Carbonell Show and Tell: Systems Administration Automation using APIs
About the Speaker
Systems Administrator at Maryville College
Bo Carbonell is the Systems Administrator for Maryville College, a small liberal arts college in Maryville TN. Bo has previously worked for Creekside Technologies, a managed service provider, and interned for the Cyber Warfare Research Team at ORNL. Bo's hobbies include music, fishing, and general learning, while his favorite thing in the world is his family.
In an ever changing technical world, Systems Administrators today often wear many hats. For me, those hats include server administration, network engineering, Backup & DR/storage administration, virtualization engineering, as well as end user support. What are we to do with so many hats?! The obvious answer is automation. I will give a simple presentation using examples to illustrate how I have overcome some of my most time consuming tasks by taking advantage of scripting and APIs.