Re: OT - Documenting systems

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

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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