Self Documentation

I was thinking today about the idea of self-documenting servers. I’m in a situation at work now where I’m dealing with a large number of undocumented (Unix) servers. Startup scripts are in abnormal locations, multiple numbers of configuration files, identical binary files in a half-dozen places. It’s a huge challenge attempting to manage these systems. I’ve been attempting to determine the best way to manage changes that I make to a system. The best I’ve come up with is a .txt file on each server where all users can review system changes. It’s easy to automatically append changes to the end of the file. I think the next step would be automatically getting these .txt files into a wiki.

August 27, 2007 | Filed Under work | Leave a Comment 

New face

Trying on a new face … moving to WordPress.

August 26, 2007 | Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment