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§ion=projects&x=9&y=6 Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? If spam is the question, Spamassassin is the answer. http://spamassassin.taint.org/
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