[Speakers] Repeats

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> >>>>>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.

Okay, but honestly I have no idea how to organize it into something,
well, orderly.  Written down it looks to me like a hodge podge splatter
pattern of tools (fewer tools = better, IMHO).

> 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. 

Trust me, I know.  We've consumed/assimilated about five companies
during my tenure, and every time I ask for the network documentation I'm
met with a blank stare [ and I think to myself "oh, crap" as I picture
myself wandering around the building popping my head above the ceiling
tiles - and - yes, I have found *servers* that way ].

> One of the secrets is not being brilliant, but writing it all down.

Straight up!