Tools for automatically updating linux server documentation

[fernando at lozano.eti.br]

Hi there,

ocs-inventory (availabe as part of EPEL) will build a database of hardware configuration and
installed software automatically.

As for configuration, I use Subversion to version control all configuration files (from /etc,
/var/lib and other locations) and a branch structure with levels for "database server", "email
server" then the individual servers, and tags for each individual server (and template) "certified"
configurations.


[]s, Fernando Lozano


> Hi all.
> 
> 
> We're in need of a streamlined way of documenting the
> configuration/hardware/etc of our RHEL-servers (versjons 3, 4 and 5). As of
> now, our documentation is spread across different formats and locations, and
> manually updated.
> 
> I don't have an specific idea of exactly what kind of documentation tool I'd
> like, so I'm up for suggestions. I'm pretty sure that not all information
> can be automatically retreived, but if we start with basic things like
> hardware configuration and some basic OS stuff (update level, kernel
> versjon, etc)I can take if from there. Hopefully there exists some scripts
> or something that can gather such information automatically, and update the
> documentation.
> 
> Any advice on information to maintain in such a documentation tool will also
> be appreciated, although I guess that much of it will be specific for our
> organization.
> 
> Regards,
> Kenneth Holter
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