{"id":4236,"date":"2004-08-25T18:27:37","date_gmt":"2004-08-25T18:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4236"},"modified":"2004-08-25T18:27:37","modified_gmt":"2004-08-25T18:27:37","slug":"it_department_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4236","title":{"rendered":"IT Department in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like the idea of this a lot.  It would be so handy to have a CD I could bring with me for setting up a machine with this stuff in one step.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingsysadmin.com\/archives\/000046.html\">Commentary: Project Idea: &#8220;IT Department In A Box&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s dawned on me that a great many small sites (and possibly big sites too) would be greatly helped if someone made a single box that included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestpractical.com\">RequestTracker<\/a>\n<li>Some kind of up\/down monitoring system like Nagios or BigBrother\n<li>Some kind of capacity planning monitor like Cricket or MRTG\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twiki.org\">TWiki<\/a> or other Wiki, with a pre-built set of pages\n<li>A serial console system like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.conserver.com\">Conserver.com<\/a>\n<li>Bacula or other free backup system\n<\/ul>\n<p>While none of those are difficult to install for an experienced Linux person, the goal would be a system that the common &#8220;Mr. Fixit&#8221; kind of sysadmin that serves small sites would be able to load a CD-ROM and have the entire machine working very quickly.  Each application would be pre-installed, and pre-customized.  For example, the install procedure would ask for the IP address of a few key servers, and Nagios would default to monitoring it.  The Wiki would have pre-configured pages that include add\/remove\/change procedures the above items (how to add\/remove\/change a server that Nagios monitors, add\/remove\/change a file system that Bacula is backing up, etc.). [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.everythingsysadmin.com\/\">Everything Sysadmin<\/a>]<.\/p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The thing I&#8217;d add to this is that the whole thing would come with a good set of docs on paper on how to use everything.  While you can always go and print something like that off. I just like the feel of a real book for docs at times (I hate reading things on screen).  I&#8217;d also even expand this idea some.  How about a series of CDs for different purposes (firewall?).  Tools like this would be really handy for people who are maybe doing part time sysadmin work for a small company (and as the post says, even big ones).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like the idea of this a lot. It would be so handy to have a CD I could bring with me for setting up a machine with this stuff in one step. Commentary: Project Idea: &#8220;IT Department In A Box&#8221; It&#8217;s dawned on me that a great many small sites (and possibly big sites [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}