On (06/11/03 04:57), Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 09:56:15PM -0500, Paul M Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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§ion=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 -- http://www.clivemenzies.co.uk strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
