Tools for automatically updating linux server documentation

Anton Hofmann doomrunner.lists at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 07:15:21 UTC 2009


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Kenneth Holter schrieb:
> 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

Hi Kenneth, check Sitar from Novell.

http://sitar.berlios.de/
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