Getting involved

[James L. Hartwell <one.com">jim]

I am very interested in the SAGE discussion group but have not herd anything
from it since I received the notice that I was on the list. If there is 
something else I must do to get involved in some of the discussions I would 
like to know what that might be.

I am a farly new systems administrator and would like to learn more about
what is going on the the field of sys admin. I work for a company that 
uses multiple platforms and connects them together using TCP/IP. It would
be nice to hear what other administrators are doing to monitor and increase 
performance of LANs and what tools might be used to assist us in doing this.

Another area of concern for me is network backups. I have implemented a 
backups scheme that works fairly well but it requires constant monitoring and
maintenance. If there are better ways of handling backups I would like to know
about them.

Monitoring our internet service is somewhat of a mystery to me. My i-net server
is a Motorola SystemV 68K R3V7.1 system that does not come with the "trace"
command. I have read about some utilities that use "trace" to help find bottle-
necks in the i-net but I have seen nothing for us that do not have "trace".
Does anyone out there know of a way to find out why packets are being dropped
and a way to do general monitoring of i-net services?

Thank you in advance for sharing your time a knowledge with me,
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   James L. Hartwell                                                           
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