Cell administrators create new cells and help current and future employees join existing cells.
Creating new cells involves creating and naming the cells within a global enterprise and setting up their service offerings. Joining cells involves integrating an existing system management infrastructure to the distributed computing environment.
Cell administrators usually control the following:
· Install DCE on local client machines
· Create and name cells within a computing infrastructure
· Setup and maintain cell communications networks, including data transmission, voice, and video
· Setup and maintain cell operating system, file system, and database environments
· Setup and maintain DCE Directory, Security, and Time services for cell
· Setup and maintain cellwide desktop services such as internal and third-party applications that will be available to large groups of desktop users from servers within the cell
· Setup and maintain cellwide failover, backup, and storage services
· Administer a cell disaster recovery plan
· Setup and maintain cellwide printing services, including installation and naming of printers and print queues
· Setup and maintain a cellwide help-desk service strategies and procedures
· Setup, use, and maintain cellwide tools portfolio for managing the cell and its services
· Setup guidelines for intracell and intercell communications, security, and resource sharing for cells
· Administer local server and client hardware and software inventory
· Maintain the runtime engines for all of the above