Re: OT - Documenting systems

From: Clive Menzies (clive_at_clivemenzies.co.uk)
Date: 11/06/03

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    Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:04:44 +0000
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

    On (05/11/03 21:56), Paul M Foster wrote:
    > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 10:47:00PM +0000, Clive Menzies wrote:
    > > 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.

    Thanks Paul

    The situation here is a mixed system with Mac, Windows and Linux boxes
    on the network. Clients are invariably on windows but we will install
    a linux fileserver were appropriate as a first step in migration. So
    really I need something that will handle different platforms but
    preferably running on the server.

    I may come back to you for syssum but will investigate the individual
    programs initially.

    Regards

    Clive 

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