Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I am coming into a company that has almost no documentation on its AIX servers. I am looking to put together a "folder" for each system that documents all the important system information. I am interested in things like:

Processors
Memory
Swap Space
HD configurations
IP configurations
Copies of important files
..etc...

If you gurus have experience with this kind of documentation, feel free to share some of the information I should keep on file or what files I sould be keeping records of for quit reference or recovery.

Thank you kindly,
Zipp
SA,TX
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Originally posted by: unixgrl

Run a snap on each system on a regular basis and save the output from it on another server. That's a very easy way to get most of the data you would need to troubleshoot when its down.
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Originally posted by: IBMFORUMS

There are many tools for configuration management available on the market and I recommend this option if your company is an enterprise company that have hundreds or thousands of servers (AIX, SUN, HP-UX, WINDOWS, LINUX ...etc).

second option, you can run prtconf on every server and developed a small script that read all the outputs of prtconf and format it in a single file.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

I'm currently tackling this problem for a mid-sized (10s, not 100s, of servers) AIX environment.

The solution I'm currently building will comprise:

* Single spreadsheet per server, with multiple tabs to separate information
* Script to run and advise of any changes in the information recorded in the spreadsheet (helps to keep things current)
* Script to run and record detailed information (snap) and back it up should the information ever need to be used.

I believe this strikes a balance between usable, human-readable, records and more 'complete' records for use in in-depth troubleshooting.
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Originally posted by: SystemAdmin

A nice little tool is cfg2html. This will capture all the system information and put it in a txt file and an html file for web access.
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