dan takes a poll: server names

Fraser Campbell fraser-eicrhRFjby5dCsDujFhwbypxlwaOVQ5f at public.gmane.org
Fri Apr 30 14:00:14 UTC 2004


On Friday 30 April 2004 01:02, Henry Spencer wrote:

> When you've got multiple identical or near-identical machines (or just a
> sufficiently large number of non-identical machines), it's vital to keep
> proper records.  There has to be a log, on line or on paper, saying what
> got done to which machine when... and the machines have to have unambiguous
> identifying names/numbers/whatever which are assigned at unpacking time,
> clearly marked on the machines, and never changed.
>
> People often underestimate the importance of this until it bites them.

Absolutely.  Spend an extra 5% time documenting how things were setup and 
you'll save 100s of % of time when you have to do it again (disaster 
recovery, migration, whatever).  I find documentation of software 
(configuration, libraries, etc.) more important than hardware but both are 
vital.

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