Definition: system administration

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Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (2003-OCT-10) 

system administration

   <job> Activities performed by a system administrator (or
   "admin", "sysadmin", "site admin") such as monitoring security
   configuration, managing allocation of user names and
   passwords, monitoring disk space and other resource use,
   performing backups, and setting up new hardware and
   software.

   system administrators often also help users, though in a large
   organisation this may be a separate job.

   Compare postmaster, sysop, system management, systems
   programmer.

   [Other tasks?]

   (1999-05-02)