On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 10:45 -0400, Ben Steeves wrote: > Our IT department is interested in knowing what system your > organization uses to manage server maintenance and repair logs. We are > currently rethinking the way we record our logs. After discussions > with many of our system administrators, we have decided that we would > like to record: > 1. Major Hardware/Software Failures and Their Resolutions > 2. Server Hardware and Firmware Additions and Changes > 3. Configuration Changes to Operating System and Major Applications > 4. Major, Manual Software/Operating System Upgrades > > We would like to keep the recording of each of those types of changes > simple and easy to do. > >From our experience, if it takes too long or too much effort, updates > will not be recorded. > Thus we would like to keep the log entries down to brief, 2-3 sentence > paragraphs. > > We're interested in deploying a system to manage the updating, > searching and reporting of logs. From our requirements, it does not > look like we need a very complex system. What system does your > organization use to manage your logs? Do you know of another > open-source or commercial product that would meet our needs? > -- > Ben Steeves _ bcs@xxxxxxxxxx > The ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) ben.steeves@xxxxxxxxx > against HTML e-mail X GPG ID: 0xB3EBF1D9 > http://www.metacon.ca/bcs / \ Yahoo Messenger: ben_steeves > We use a wiki for this, with a page for each server. Thomas
