ISO script to automate system documentation

[Andrew Dutton]

i am looking for a script that I can run on a weekly basis that will basically put into a text file (or any format really) information about my system. So in the event of a disaster things are pretty much documented. Including disks, lvms, patches, etc... HPUX 11.0 N4000

anyone know of anything good?

thanks

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

On HP-UX cfg2html is the very first choice, it's well tested and also running on many other operating systems. the output is in text and html, so that You can both access a collection of all systems via http and the current system's data via $PAGER.

I wouldn't really recommend anything else for now, we run it on ~200 boxes and I don't remember a single time were I couldn't find what I needed.

Hint: Consider using a CD-RW drive to generate a weekly updated offline-version - in real disasters this might come in handy.

[Patrick Wallek]

I use both CFG2HTML and Nickel to do this. I have CFG2HTML automaed and it updates weekly on a central server.

CFG2HTML
http://come.to/cfg2html

Nickel
http://www.unixguide.net/scripts/nickel108