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What are we supposed to document of our server infrastructure?

It's very important to have decent and good documentation. The problem is that often we might have good documenting techniques, but we forget some crucial points. It can be extremely painful to find these crucial points during a disaster recovery.…
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Is there reference documentation for CloudInit?

Ubuntu's CloudInit package is very useful; however, the only documentation I've found on all of the available options is in their examples:…
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Powershell and NMAP Information Sharing

I am working on a project where I would like to perform host documentation for a variety of items. Part of these items would be sourced from Powershell and the rest would be sourced from NMAP. For the Powershell part, I am working on trying to…
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Documenting port numbers on floor plan

I want to be able to create a simple floor plan and document where all the ports are located and what there number is. Is there any good software to help with this. Preferably open source / free.
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Complex software installation documentation procedures or tools

We have to distribute and maintain a somewhat complex software application, whose installer does not (nor is expected to) install and configure every part needed on any possible kind of server. I've been the person responsible for the installation…
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Inventory tool to document customers services and associated network connectivity details?

Has anyone a recommendation for an inventory tool to document: customers, services associated by each customer, network connectivity details (IP, TCP, ftp, http): typically local and remote TCP socket details and layer on top.
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Cisco 48 port switch template diagram

We have just taken delivery of a 'mature' 48 port switch for testing, deployment and general skulduggery. Since we are going to be constantly mucking around with the patching we need a diagram so we know which port is on what VLAN. Has anybody…
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ansible documentation of alternative use of deprecated ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES

the deprecation warning discouraging the use of ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES includes a reasoning: ALLOW_WORLD_READABLE_TMPFILES option, moved to a per plugin approach that is more flexible. , use mostly the same config will work, but now…
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How to safely document details of small IT assets?

I have a small set of assets including: Virtual machine host Multiple virtual machines Shared folders AWS services Backup software If I were to get "hit by a bus" the people left behind that would have to sort things out would be lost. I fear that…
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How to document mail setup after hand-over

I've just moved a client's email services over from my host to Google Apps. I would like to hand over a document providing all they (or their agent) need should I not be available etc. How are such documents normally structured, and what level of…
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Need advice on documenting LAMP web site

I need to document my web site. It is a music web site on Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP on AWS. I need to document everything: architecture (5 servers), database (100+ tables), php classes, programming constructs, and process flows. I'm familiar with…
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centos yum repository package security information.. how do i find it?

Is there anywhere that shows which security updates are included in the patch levels for centos yum repository package version of httpd?
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Standards for documenting/designing infrastructure

We have a moderately complex solution for which we need to construct a production environment. There are around a dozen components (and here I'm using a definition of "component" which means "can fail independently of other components" - e.g. an…
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How to deliver documentation for IT tools?

I'd like to deliver an IT tool for use on Windows. The thing is an ISAPI Filter, and I want to describe installation, operations, and configuration. Currently this is done in a text file, which is fairly complete, but I think it is not very…
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Unable to understand Unix 'find' commands’ manuals completely

I find the synopsis of Find's manual difficult to read alt text http://files.getdropbox.com/u/175564/syntax_manual.png Let's assume that you are finding directories with 777 permissions. Pixelbeat's suggestion is find -type d ! -perm -777 My OS/X…
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