Linux and Solaris. Mostly Linux. I'm not looking for a monitoring system, we already have one (nagios)). I'm looking to generate server documentation automatically. A script that'd traverse the system for as much useful information (iface configs, hostname, mem info, cpu info, serial # of the machine, packages currently installed, etc etc etc) and generate a huge wiki page out of it (or a series of wiki pages). I saw the Sys::* stuff on cpan. It's not portable enough (no solaris support) and the amount of information it gathers also comes nowhere close to facter. :/ Its a pretty big project: I'm going to run this on a few hundred machines. That's why I want to script this, there's no way in hell I'm going to write this much documentation by hand. And keep it up to date. Nope, no way....

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