[ale] [OT] Good Server Documentation - Best Practices

[da Black Baron]

Remember the HARDWARE, and specifics for the drivers.  Hardware network
maps are good too...

I spent a whole day trying to access one of those little dedicated
print-servers (the ones that look like external modems?) to set it up,
only to find that they had a fookin' FIREWALL upstairs BETWEEN the local
LAN hubs, which was preventing me from either accessing this piece of
hardware from the workstation I had been sitting at all day either via
http or telnet- the two options to configure it.  

Once I sat at the machine on the far side of the room, I telneted right
in... 

Who'd have figured?



On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 16:25, Jonathan Glass wrote:
> I'm about to spend a half-day doing nothing but documentation!  Woohoo! 
> Now I'm in a quandary.  I have a nice, new, clean notebook (3-ring
> binder) with inserts.  WHat is the best way to document your servers?
> 
> I was thinking about going the minimalist route, including server name,
> ip, mac, switch port #, services, file-system layout, backup policies
> and recovery methods...one sheet for each server.  
> 
> How do i document all my client machines?  Should I do the same, sans IP
> addresses?  I'm sure there is more to this.
> 
> Thanks for any tips, suggestions, RTFMs (haven't looked for a "man
> documenting-servers" yet...).
> -- 
> Jonathan Glass
> Systems Support Specialist II
> Institute for Bioengineering & Bioscience
> Georgia Institute of Technology
> 404.385.0127
> 
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