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 -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
