Here are the tools I find indispensable as a sys admin: - screen for accessing servers - lshw for seeing Linux server hardware config - cfengine for automati

Here are the tools I find indispensable as a sys admin: - screen for accessing servers - lshw for seeing Linux server hardware config - cfengine for automating my system administration - atop as an advanced top http://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php http://www.atoptool.nl/downloadatop.php atop uses color to show when a subsystem goes over warn/critical threshold. it can be run in present time, or can be used to go back in time and "play back the tape".