Re: OT - Documenting systems

From: Karsten M. Self (kmself_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 11/06/03

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    Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 04:57:27 +0000
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    on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0500, Paul M Foster (paulf@quillandmouse.com) wrote:
    > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
    >
    > > Hi
    > >
    > > By stealth, I seem to be developing a sysadmin personality, what with the
    > > expanding network here and increasingly getting involved in networking
    > > on behalf of clients. I've tried various approaches to recording
    > > details of individual components and the network but keeping them up to
    > > date is difficult.
    > >
    > > Google mainly threw up people's cv's describing their strengths in
    > > documenting systems or commercial tools.
    > >
    > > Can anyone offer any guidance in terms of sources of information or
    > > debian tools to document networked systems.
    > >
    >
    > There are at least four programs (scripts, really) that will document
    > hardware, interrupts, network configuration, etc. Some are and some
    > aren't shipped with Debian. Each varies in its thoroughness and
    > utility. All must be run on the machine you wish a report on. That
    > means they won't run on Windows boxes. The programs are: collect,
    > hinv, si, and survey. I developed my own combination of these called
    > syssum, which I can email you if you like.

    Another is my system-info script:

        http://twiki.iwethey.org/Main/LinuxSystemInfoScript

    nmap and other network monitoring ustilities can also be of use.

    You'll probably also want a hardware inventory system. Which is where
    you keep the information you collect.

        http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=inventory&section=projects&x=9&y=6

    Peace. 

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