Re: OT - Documenting systems
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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