12.3. Policies
System administrators cannot operate with just the business objectives as guidelines. There is no setting on Linux or any other operating system where you can adjust a company's revenue or market share and business strategies. After all, market analysis is not the expected expertise of the system administrator.
System administrators need a set of guidelines that are derived from business goals and represent implementation of these goals in more technical terms. Management usually communicates such guidelines in the form of policies. To keep the focus on the key requirements, policies are most effective if they are few.
12.3.1. How to phrase a policy?
In practice, all system administrators follow policies, written or unwritten. ...
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