< 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 .
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(1999-05-02)