[TriLUG] Job listing: Linux Enterprise Syst Monitor

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2010, John Broome wrote:

> PREFERRED:
> *Experience with EMC Storage Monitoring tools
> *Extensive experience in BMC tools; able to manually set up &
> configure more than one BMC Monitoring Tool. Alternatively, equivalent
> experience in either IBM or HP monitoring tools will be considered;
> such as: 1) ProactiveNet, 2) Service Impact (SIM), 3) Event Manager
> (BEM/BIM), 4) Patrol Console, 5) Patrol Agent
> *Experience with Shell scripting and/or PERL
> *Additional experience using or monitoring Solaris systems

I can never figure out whether these quite specific skills 
are reasonable requirements, or not.

I can't imagine it would take long (a couple of weeks) for 
any half intelligent person to become reasonably proficient 
at any of them; maybe 6 months for the lot. In this case are 
they looking for some unintelligent person who only has 
these skills? What will happen when the work load changes? 
Will they need to hire a new unintelligent person?

Instead of "PREFERRED" could they say "your job will be to
run/use/administer the following tools/apps..."

Joe

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