# infrastructure documentation system

**URL:** <https://forums.suse.com/t/infrastructure-documentation-system/23163>\
**Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\
**Created:** [October 4, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/infrastructure-documentation-system/23163 "2012-10-04T23:32:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2012, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/infrastructure-documentation-system/23163/1 "2012-10-04T23:32:29Z")

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Folks,

Looking for ideas here on a modern way of documenting an enterprise IT  
infrastructure. Ideally, no cost / open source. Something like MediaWiki  
but perhaps with features that show system depencencies & relationships  
(network services, storage, OS, backups, SNMP or similar, monitoring, etc.)

Main focus is documenting the infrastructure, perhaps to include  
screenshots, graphics, schematics, code boxes for conf files & scripts, etc.

Suggestions of useful, reliable, non-free tools will be considered.

Would be cool if it had a dashboard for management.

I’ll be checking projects on SourceForge

TIA

Mark G. Harvey

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/infrastructure-documentation-system/23163/2 "2012-10-05T19:32:35Z")

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On 04/10/2012 21:32, NetMaker wrote:[color=blue]

> Folks,
> 
> Looking for ideas here on a modern way of documenting an enterprise IT  
> infrastructure. Ideally, no cost / open source. Something like MediaWiki  
> but perhaps with features that show system depencencies & relationships  
> (network services, storage, OS, backups, SNMP or similar, monitoring, etc.)[/color]

Been setting up nagios+nagvis - nice relationship mapping, but still  
lacks a certain something that a mediawiki would address. ah well, maybe  
a later revision can fold that in, plus config change management.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 9, 2012, 11:06am UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/infrastructure-documentation-system/23163/3 "2012-10-09T11:06:01Z")

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I’ve worked for a variety of clients, so I’ve had the chance to see the  
different ways this is done. Most effective does seem to be using a  
Wiki. I cannot remember the name of the commercial Wiki I saw, but it  
was good. It may be worthwhile looking at alternatives to MediaWiki.

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