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Re: OT - Documenting systems



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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