[Speakers] Repeats

[Robert G. Brown]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2004 18:24:29 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison-ind.com> wrote:
>>>>>If you could pick a few PAST KLUG presentations to see again (possibly
>>>>>somewhat updated),  which ones would it be?
>>>>I'd like to see what kind of tools and methods some of the System
>>>>Administrators use to document their networks.
>>>Could you elaborate?  I assume you DO NOT mean OO & Dia?
>>Is that what you use?
>
>In part, yes.  We have 
>
>1.) A dia diagram...
>2.) A HUGE spreadsheet that contains lots of technical information...
>3.) A owriter document entitiled "Enterprise Directory Users Manual" which...

>>Let's say you have a printer in (choose remote location) that's not working.
>>How do you tell what ip it is?....
>For that instance: rfc3712;...We will go with an RFC defined method whenever
possible.

>Passwords for printers, routers, etc... 
>For asset information we currently just have a couple tables in a database...

>>Are there other things that you keep track of?
>The endless list of maint/change items.  Most of this we track in OGo....
>There are a set of cron jobs that run on the servers that inventory
>configuration, etc...
>Any of these constitute a presentation?

Cumulatively, it *ALL* does. Clearly to tools are not quite as important as 
the organization and discipline that goes with doing this work, although the 
tools may provide some direction, and their particular features may make it 
easier.

The last, oh, 5 networks I've worked on would not have made me quite as 
wealthy if even one of the netadmins that had gone before had done only
2/3rds of these things. One of the secrets is not being brilliant, but
writing it all down.

							Regards,
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