Organizing maintenance history and warranty type records

[Andy Graybeal]

On 01/02/2011 01:40 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Andy Graybeal wrote:
>
>> Is there a 'sys-admins friend' type application for keeping track of
>> maintenance, config changes, and warranty information more or less
>> organized by the machines name?
>
> Sticking config files under some sort of version control is a common
> way to keep track of changes to them, and of who to blame for what. Git
> is currently quite a fashionable version control system.
>
> There are larger systems like puppet which are designed for managing
> large numbers of machines, but I gather they assume quite a high degree
> of consistency.
>
>
> For warranty info, I've never gone beyond a dymo label with a start and
> end date on it stuck to the machine.
>

Very interesting.   A revision system on config files is a great idea. 
I feel like I'm out of the loop.

I feel like I've already messed up by not starting out this way.  Would 
you consider starting mid-way with a configuration revision system less 
than ideal, but still okay?  Is there anything you might do differently 
starting mid-way?

I've never used a revision system before, so I see a slight curve ahead.

I googled some and found several revision systems recommended for 
configuration control.  I'll be trying git and others out.

Thank you for your response, this is great information.

-Andy