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How to track physical drives to server LUNs & mount points
I need to document which physical drives each server depends on ( SAN, on an external array, iSCSI etc). Since this potentially a many-many relationship, with dependencies, finding a usable solution ...
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Where can I find introductory documentation for ZFS?
I recently installed OpenIndiana because of an interest in ZFS. I like the feature-list of ZFS, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how to configure it. All of the documentation I ...
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Trusted online source for html-formatted Linux manpages? [closed]
[Edit: I believe the question alone is perfectly valid, since quick, communicable access to a manpage is certainly relevant to server administrators. But to prove I put some thought into the question, ...
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Documenting Group Policy
We as an IT group are about to go through all of our group policies and clean up/enhance them. I am trying to compile an easy to read document on what is configured and what is not.
I wanted to ask ...
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Suggestions for projects related to network monitoring, documentation, collaboration [closed]
I am looking for any projects integrating functions like monitoring, management and documentation of network/servers/services.
Currently using Orion and Nagios for tasks on monitoring and alerts, ...
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Component and service documentation Requirement for platform migration [closed]
I have a sudden need to comprehensively document a moderately complex platform, and break it down into service and application components, and describe how these services can be migrated and are ...
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Sharing responsibilities within a SysAdmin team
I used to work in a small System Administration team that consisted of 3 members. We each had our own area:
E-mail
Server build and monitoring
File sharing
I am not sure if this is typical but it ...
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Where can I find information about inbuilt registry keys for Windows Server 2008 R2?
Is there a resource for looking up the description and/or usage of W2K8 R2 registry keys?
I need to understand integrity checksum change messages appearing in OSSEC logs on Amazon EC2 instances.
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What software is available to keep track of hundreds of servers?
What good software is available (free or not free) to help me keep track of information relating to hundreds of servers, their relationships to each other (parent/child, category, type), and ...
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Wiki Documentation With Permissions
So I've set up a MediaWiki for managing some docs, we have AD integration set up and so far things are going fine...
But wow is managing permissions a pain in the butt! Requires editing LocalSettings ...
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Which is the best way to keep up all your documentation? [closed]
I hope I'm not bothering anybody with this question. I have my technical documentation scattered using different methods, here is a list of the most used:
notebook I have several notebooks full of ...
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What format are the files in /usr/share/doc/ in?
I found a nice wealth of information on some commands that I use in /usr/share/doc. Some are in a weird format though with tags such as:
\verbatim and \endverbatim
\section and \endsection
Any ...
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HTTP 404 - /docs/appdev/ on fresh netbeans tomcat 7 install
As part of re-installing NetBeans 7.0.1, I had Tomcat 7.0.14 installed too on my PC. I created a manager role too. I can access http://localhost:8084/manager/html successfully.
<role ...
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Powershell 2: How to eliminate duplicate help entries?
I am frequently making calls such as:
get-help <some-command>
in Powershell 2. For many, but not all, of these commands, I am not shown the contents of the help entry. Instead, I get ...
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Documentation and password storage for a web hosting company
I am in the process of designing and building a documentation and password storage point with the following ingredients:
Suffice from service outages
Automatic backups
Keeping security and ...
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Formal Criteria for Network Complexity/Size Classification
I seem to recall running across a "formal" criteria or a standardized method for helping to define and talk about a network's size or complexity - A set of generalized standards that people use when ...
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Instructions on how to edit DNS for major DNS providers and registrars [closed]
I need to direct my customers to make a DNS change, but they all have different registrars. It is next to impossible to create a single set of instructions that applies to all of them.
Does anyone ...
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Configuring mod_security on Ubuntu 10.04
After spending pretty much a non-stop 24 hours trying and failing to setup mod_security in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - I've finally decided that I'm going to need some help (and so asked here).
I've tried ...
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Legal IT documents
I have been wondering this past week because my big boss told me to start keeping track of all the things I have fixed, how to fix them, etc. Which is reasonable and have been doing anyway. But then ...
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WSDL documentation in JBoss
I wrote a web-service in a documentation-first approach, meaning I wrote a WSDl + XSD spec, and generated Java sources from it.
The WSDL also contains documentation in form of ...
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Racktables and DHCP
For those of you out there using Racktables, how do you handle DHCP scopes? I haven't been able to find a way to show the IP addresses as allocated.
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Industry Standards for Network Infrastructure Labeling
Are there any current industry standards IEEE, ISO, ANSI.... available that state how a buildings physical infrastructure should be labeled at the rack and jack and how the documentation should be ...
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What are some great network diagram techniques?
Over a long time, the network I work with has grown from a couple of servers and a handful of client PCs to a gargantuan beast with the following things configured on the core switch:
VLANs - ...
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Server change request documentation
Is there anywhere that can provide a template for a server change request document?
Thanks
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where can i find detailed docs for IIS server event id's with their description?
i have been googling for hours now and cant find a thing. There are plenty of articles/blogposts/forum_articles (from MSDN) on some specific events and their resolution etc ; but i simply cant find a ...
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Where can I find detailed documentation for IIS server event id's with their description?
I have been googling for hours now and cant find a thing.
I'm looking for more information on IIS Server event IDs.
There are plenty of articles/blogposts/forum_articles (from MSDN) on some specific ...
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Enable seeing the PHP source code of my test files from web browser
I would like to make my UnitTests available to see via the browser.
My directory structure looks like this:
application
docs
public
- index.php
tests
My DocumentRoot is in the public folder. ...
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Is it possible to tell what edition of Windows a domain member is using through AD?
We are in the middle of doing physical inventory of all of our workstations, many of which were deployed in a hurry. Consequently, we do not have all of the information about them documented that we ...
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CentOS 5.5 Package documentation
Usually when I install a common package like PostgreSQL or MySQL or Python etc using Yum it installs the files held within those packages into locations specific to CentOS itself. It may also install ...
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Text template or tool for documentation of computer configurations
I regularly write and update technical documentation which will be used to set up a new virtual machine, or to have a lookup for system dependencies in networks with around 20-50 (server-side) ...
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How to visually document IT processes?
Our company has 8 departments each housing approximately 12 people on average. I'm the CTO of the company and IT is involved in pretty much all departments. As such, there is a need to define and ...
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What are suggestions for hardware,software,and active directory documentation? [closed]
There is a lot of total crap out there I don't want to waste a lot of time testing to be disappointed. I'm trying to create some physical documentation for software, hardware, active directory, group ...
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documenting a schools pcs and network (voluntary)
My daughter’s school have several networked pcs (various OS), printers, networked interactive white boards (connect to the internet, stream media etc). They have a parent who was looking after ...
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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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What's new in Puppet since 2007?
I've got a copy of the Pulling Strings with Puppet book (written in 2007) but given that it has a bunch of equivocal language, I'm wonder how much has changed since then? I've found this Release Notes ...
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IT Documentation Platforms
We are a growing IT operation that continues to provide additional offerings and support to a variety of customers. As we continue to sustain this growth, we have found that we need to have easy ...
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OFL.EXE Syntax / Documentation
Does anyone know where I can find the documentation, syntax, example usage for OFL.exe?
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IT Documentation with MediaWiki
We are looking for ways in which to further enhance our documentation and our ability to allow easy access to the information as well as editing the information. With these ideas in mind, we created ...
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Documenting the configuration of Windows Server 2003?
Are there any tools that can be used to document configuration of Windows Server 2003?
By configuration I mean:
Services installed
Programs installed
Users
IIS config
UPDATE1:
Simplified ...
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Linux I/O buffering reference
Can someone point me to a fairly complete reference on the Linux I/O system, primarily how all the buffers and caches are handled and flushed?
My understanding so far is that there are
Application ...
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Where can I find thorough nginx documentation?
I'd like to use nginx to serve as the proxy on our existing host when we migrate to a new server/ip address. Everywhere I've been says to use nginx for its speed.
However the documentation appears to ...
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Tool to manage IP map?
Is there a tool which can manage the maintenance of an IP map?
If no, it is possible to make a Powershell script which can get hostnames and their IPs, but it'd be nice if a tool exists to do this ...
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Why should I join USENIX and SAGE?
I've recently discovered some documentation on sage.org website that would be of interest and great help to me. But in order to access to it I have to register with USENIX. Now since I'm from Europe ...
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how i can write a professional documentaion for big network
I design a big network and i want to document my design in documentation . all thing swhitch, router, server and ip address ........
and i want to simulate it and draw it
if anyone have a sample of ...
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How to I Document User Rights on an existing Linux System?
Need to document user rights on an existing Linux system.
What commands, actions, etc. will allow me to gather complete user profiles?
User rights include, but are not limited to:
File/Directory: ...
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IP address range for examples in documentations
Is there an IP address range dedicated to example in documentations ? (Like example.com for DNS)
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Database security guidelines and tips
I have been recently hired by an event-planning company to create a web application that will allow online payment for specific events and keep a list of registrants. My employers are asking for a ...
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Including email, IMs, configs, etc. in documentation or notes
The shop I work in is pretty laid-back. We're on a documentation kick, only because historically we've been very bad with it. We do a lot of our brainstorming in face-to-face meetings, and also do a ...
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What metaphors have you used to convey complex technical terms to the layman or beginner?
As sysadmins, we are constantly forced to convey complex technical terms and situations to the layman or beginner. I was just wondering what metaphors each of you may have devised to describe things ...
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What to document in my network/domain?
I am doing system admin for a small domain on the corporate network. We have our own DNS, AD, DHCP servers etc and use both HyperV and ESX.
What exactly do I need to document for this sort of setup? ...
