Re: OT - Documenting systems

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

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    On (06/11/03 04:57), Karsten M. Self wrote:
    > 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:
    > > > 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

    Thanks Karsten

    On brief examination, these links look promising. I really need a
    multi-platform solution and there seem to be a few possibilities within
    freashmeat.

    Regards

    Clive 

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