We use a Wiki here for almost the exact same thing - documenting the system layout, network layout, etc. We're using the tikiwiki flavor found at http://tikiwiki.org
Wikis are great for colloberative documentation writing - that's the whole design point. The good thing is that everyone can contribute to writing the doc. The bad thing is also that everyone can contribute to writing the doc. :) The only pain we've had so far is access controls. One of our genius lab monkeys has gotten the system patched into the LDAP authorization system, he said it really wasnt that hard to do. The problem is that the access control mechanisms in the wiki itself ( at least the one we're using ) are a bit cumbersome to use. It may be easier for a small group within a large org to use the built in authorization system and just add the few people who actually need to write the docs, then give global read access to the rest of the org. Jay Brenneman Ranga Nathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 14/03/2005 14:03 Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To [email protected] cc Subject OT - CMS for Documentation - any recommendations? I need a simple but powerful (oxymoron?) content management system to document our z/VM environment. There are 3 production Linux guests running mission-critical applications. I was thinking of using TWiki to maintain our knowledge base but there are scores of open source CMS according http://cmsinfo.org/index.php I would appreciate any feedback - +ve or -ve. I am not keen to start with TWiki and then have to switchover to something else. TIA. __________________________________________ Ranga Nathan / CSG Systems Programmer - Specialist; Technical Services; BAX Global Inc. Irvine-California Tel: 714-442-7591 Fax: 714-442-2840 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
