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Within 24hrs of posting to this list, I received 7 replies in my inbox
(another just arrived now!). Many thanks to all who responded - your help
has been invaluable!
I was looking for pointers to tools and documentation to allow me (the
uninitiated DUnix admin-type) to perform a site survey of 2 v3.2g boxes and
2 v4.0a boxes.
Here are the tips and pointers I received:
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hardware: look at /var/adm/messages, you will see all of the hardware in
there or at the SRM prompt do a show dev.
software: setld -i will list an inventory of the software subsets
installed on your computer....
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Get the UniCensus kit from digital's service.digital.com site under ,
I think,
the online_services--> Edex toolkit page. It auto docs your systems and
the output is in HTML. Presents warnings and will Email a copy to
Digital support if you want.
(It is a customer friendly wrapper for Sys_Check)
Impress your new boss...
I can tar up my kit for you if you can't find it.
-Stephen (I wrote UniCensus and allot of Sys_Check while at Digital)
NOTE: Stephen was kind enough to send the kit over to me as I was unable to
retrieve part of it over the net. Thanks Stephen!
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Hi:
I recommend you to check:
the users file, group file those for accounting.
The files are /etc/passwd, and /etc/group
The aliases file for mail grouping
The file is: /var/adm/sendmail/aliases
The files for networking:
The files are: /etc/hosts, /etc/hosts.equiv
Also, check the man pages on-line for help on this files.
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setld -i > subset.lst
will give you a handy list of all the digital software and it's status.
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Jon,
Log in as root on each one and run the command:
setld -l > list
That will dump the list of Digital subsets to a file 'list', which you can
then print out and use to look at. You can narrow the list down by
filtering the output through grep "INSTALL" to just get installed software.
NOTE: I suspect the author meant 'setld -i' as the '-l' parameter allows
loading software from a dist point.
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Software inventory by
setld -i
But that only shows official DEC products installed with setld.
If people installed random public-domain stuff and even some
commercial stuff, it would not be recorded there.
Just look around. Especially in /usr/local and /opt
Hardware inventory by looking at the first few messages in
uerf
after a boot. Or looking at the screen during a boot
or look at /etc/messages after a boot.
Some more info at the monitor prompt
>>> SHOW CONFIG
>>> SHOW DEVICE
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http://www.pdc.kth.se/doc/osf/osf40/HTML/AA-Q0R2D-TET1_html/TOC.html
NOTE: This is a link to a lengthy OSF guide - chock full of good
information! My brain could spend hours here!
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For software:
The lmf utiity keeps a database of software licenses installed on each
system. I don't think this utility changes much between 3.2g and 4.0a.
Each license listed with "lmf list" should have a corresponding black
and white "license pak" certificate somewhere among your records. Good
luck sorting those out; I found the actual paper licenses to be very
confusing.
sparky:root# lmf list
Product Status Users:
Total Active
OSF-BASE active
unlimited
OSF-BASE active, multiple
unlimited
....
#lmf list full cache - will give a long version for each
product.
Hardware -
You can see each installed hardware device with
#uerf -R full | more
Scroll through and look for an entry for SYSTEM STARTUP. It will logs
through all the hardware recognized at boot. When we did all our
inventories, we needed serial numbers, so we downed the server and
pulled out the cards. The disadvantage to that was getting everything
reseated correctly in the slots. A couple of machines were VERY finicky
about how the memory cards were seated.
You might find more information at
ftp://ftp.digital.com/Digital/Alpha.
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Jonathan Earle
Technical Architect
HUB Computer Consulting Inc.
Pager: (613)751-4948
Email: jearle_at_hubcc.ca
"You can never burn out as long as you're doing what you enjoy.
When it stops being fun, then you burn out. And I'm still having fun."
- jms
Received on Fri Oct 31 1997 - 16:48:11 NZDT