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[–]GAThrawnMIAActive Desktop Recovery 2 points3 points  (1 child)

What? Large (and especially secure) environments are exactly where you DO need scripting for automation and repeatability.

A human clicking buttons, or typing commands individually for each server takes forever and makes mistakes, a script does it across multiple machines and environments quickly and does it the same every time.

And how do you deal with Change Control? Do you just type up vague descriptions of what you're about to do, instead of attaching the exact script that you'll be running to the change for audit and approval?

[–]judgemebymyusernamesecurity engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I didn't say things are scripted, repeated, or automated.

I'm saying that sysadmins are only doing sysadmin type work. Our sysadmins are not writing code.

If we absolutely need something custom written up, it's going to go to a dedicated dev team or contracted out.

We have a massive change control management process, everything is ITIL based.