On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 9:16 AM, john boris <[email protected]> wrote: > Ski, > During my time here at $WORK I have seen my share of young sysadmins and the > main thing I have seen missing is troubleshooting skills. I have always been > torn on how does a person gain troubleshooting skills. Is a person born with > that trait or do they gather and retain that knowledge from training and > personal experience.
Little from column A, a little from column B. Some people are highly intuitive and work it out up to a point on their own. Then they need an analytic framework to start extending their skills. Other people need that analytic frame to start learning - they're usually very rational and logical-progression-of-steps folks - and once they get a good handle on what's possible they start having powerful suspicions/intuitions about the state of the system and what could possibly have gone wrong. Neither way is better, just different. --e _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
