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Re: OT - Documenting systems



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.

HTH,

Paul



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