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i wish hp would open source their cmdb code... that stuff was pretty neat.

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 10:03 AM, George Shuklin <george.shuklin at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  In my earlier days I had tried many formal schemes, but it always cause
> problems.
>
> For now I settle to following scheme:
>
> machine-used database (dns, chef, etc) for explit details like mac
> addresses, hardware, rack location, network communication. That database
> should be constantly used, not 'write only', otherwise everyone will starts
> to forget to update, and suddenly it will loose it authority over 'I wrote
> you about it in hipchat and than send you update via sms, and final version
> is in your other skype account'. Usually it some kind of 'work', or
> 'control panel', or chef data bags.
>
> All topological schemes should be hand written. Whiteboards is just
> perfect for that. Why? Because all tools, except pen/pencil/marker are
> restrain you, forcing to use terminology and linking type of that tool.
> Even inkscape is restricting, because you can not just 'undersubscribe'
> link, or draw funny spiral ("here it goes somewhere...").
>
> And text in corporate wiki in free form. Yes, updates will change
> everything, but even after updates original picture and text will be
> precious, because they will say history  and will help to debug strange
> issues with historical reasons. Corporate blogs are perfect place for
> updates and ideas for future update.
>
> Yes, it is a mess, but it is better than 'not enough information because
> of the format restrictions'.
>
>
>
> On 01/26/2015 03:45 PM, matt wrote:
>
>  I really liked using sphinx for documentation back in the day, it has
> the benefit of being community compatible.  I also enjoyed graphviz
> integration in sphinx for diagrams... and then there was templating
> gnuplots....
>
>  but i think I was probably considered a masochist on this front.  at the
> very least management types did not like that they couldn't really edit our
> documentation.
>
>  -matt
>
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 5:10 AM, George Shuklin <george.shuklin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  We using chef to manage hosts. Data bags contains all data of all
>> hosts. We keep hardware configuration and DC-wide-name in databags too.
>>
>> For the flowcharts we mostly use markers and whiteboard, sometime I
>> sketch stuff in dia [1] or with wacom tablet in mypaint.
>>
>> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/dia-installer/
>>
>>
>>
>> On 01/25/2015 04:15 PM, Daniel Comnea wrote:
>>
>>    Hi all,
>>
>>  Can anyone who runs Openstack in a production environment/ data center
>> share how you document the whole infrastructure, what tools are used for
>> drawing diagrams(i guess you need some pictures otherwise is hard to
>> understand it :)), maybe even an inventory etc?
>>
>>
>>
>>  Thanks,
>> Dani
>>
>>
>>
>>  P.S in the past - 10+ - i used to have maintain a red book but i suspect
>> situation is different in 2015
>>
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